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The Public Interest

«Every individual...generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.»
«Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.»
«Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.»
«In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.»
«The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.»
«They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening»
«I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame»
«No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.»
«The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.»
«The government is neither a monolith nor simply the public interest personified.»

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