It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.
Paul Nurse

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Margaret Thatcher

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
Walter Benjamin

It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.
Henry Lawson

It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time.
Paul Giamatti

It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason.
Dwight Schultz

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
Louisa May Alcott

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
Mencius

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.
Mary Ellen Chase

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.
Marston Morse

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
Albert Camus

Men exist for the sake of one another.
Marcus Aurelius

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Margaret Fuller

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.
Tom Hayden

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.
Daniel Schorr

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold

Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?
William Shatner

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
Henry Miller