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Community of interests   /kəmjˈunəti əv ˈɪntrəsts/   Listen
Community of interests

noun
1.
Agreement as to goals.  Synonym: community.






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"Community of interests" Quotes from Famous Books



... mill was virtually resolved into a corporation or community of interests, running perpetually for the maintenance and support of those who worked in it. The only property actually acquired by the individual was a home, his savings in wages, and the dividends on his stock acquired by ...
— The Bishop of Cottontown - A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills • John Trotwood Moore

... sensational disclosure, but which stood out in her memory as the one indiscretion of an otherwise blameless life. That she imparted it to Ida was the most striking evidence she could have given of the absolute community of interests which she recognized as existing between them. She was greatly comforted when Ida, instead of appearing shocked, declared that she sympathized with the culprit more than she blamed her, and that her misconduct ...
— Miss Ludington's Sister • Edward Bellamy

... "don't want all the money they make, don't care for things they buy, and don't all appreciate the power they possess and bestow." But all these are passing characteristics. If it took less than twenty years to build up the corporations until the present community of interests almost forms a trust of trusts, how long, we may ask, will it take the new magnates to learn to "appreciate" their power? How long will it take them to learn to enter into partnership with the government instead of corrupting it from without, and to see that, ...
— Socialism As It Is - A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement • William English Walling

... the intercourse of which was ruled by certain legal principles. International Law grew out of custom because it was a necessity according to the well-known rule ubi societas ibi jus, where there is a community of interests there must be law. The several independent States had thus gradually and unconsciously formed themselves into a Society, the afterwards so-called Family of Nations, or, in other words, a League ...
— The League of Nations and its Problems - Three Lectures • Lassa Oppenheim

... to some of the more enlightened Gentiles of antiquity, some degree of political wisdom; we might still look in vain for their progress in that estimation of temporal wealth, which reveals our community of interests, thus divesting self-love of its hatefulness, by training it to its best satisfaction. Historically, we every where find self-love too blind, freakish, springing upon immediate results, too envenomed with maliciousness to ...
— The Growth of Thought - As Affecting the Progress of Society • William Withington


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