It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
In the U.S., highly selective renditions of its history have served in practice to impose blinkers on some of its citizens and… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
When you talk to family and friends, they can't tell you anything from an impartial point of view because they have a… — Brian O'Driscoll Copy Share Image
I've always supported LGBT organizations and things like that because I felt like I had a vested interest in this, where I… — Kevin McHale Copy Share Image
Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I will make utmost efforts to conduct regulatory reform by tearing down bureaucratic sectionalism, vested interests and notorious habit of following precedents. — Yoshihide Suga Copy Share Image
There is big resistance from vested interests in China that don't want to open up to competition. — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
Cutting the fiscal deficit is not popular. That is the experience of all governments in all countries. Expenditure cuts hurt certain vested… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Reforms aimed at increasing an economy's flexibility are always hard - and even more so at a time of weak growth -… — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
Some vested interests have an inclination to tarnish the image of those in politics and there have been occasions when some people… — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Newspapers are not made any longer by news or journalism. They are made by sheer weight of money expressed in free gift… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
“By the eighteenth century many were showing all the negative conservatism of a vested interest overtaken by events: dogged devotion to old… — Timothy C.W. Blanning Copy Share Image
“[T]he ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But of course DYING is renamed and classified by the Medical Establishment as a negative patient outcome. Words, marketing, and advertising can… — Lee Vickers Copy Share Image
For twenty years it had been generally known that an insidious Lobby was maintained in Washington to influence legislation and executive action… — Margaret Case Harriman Copy Share Image
“On the contrary, the male has a vested interest in ignorance; it gives the few knowledgeable men a decided edge on the… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
A comfort zone can be a mental state:Belief in God is a lot of peoples's comfort zone. Dont get me wrong, I'm… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
To me, I took a militant attitude towards sounds. I wanted sounds to be a metaphor, that they could be as free… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
“The person who profits from this law will complain bitterly, defending his acquired rights . He will claim that the state is… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
“The story of liberalism, as liberals tell it, is rather like the legend of St. George and the dragon. After many centuries… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
“The corporate system is interconnected and now share a common invested interest, the ability to control through business, the people. It is… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
“You could see the signs of female aging as diseased, especially if you had a vested interest in making women too see… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“I didn’t want to go, but his arms were underneath me, easing me toward the edge of the gurney and a waiting… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
“And this parable represents man in the ordinary state of unconsciousness. It is one of the most beautiful illustrations of man as… — Osho Copy Share Image
“A common problem plagues people who try to design institutions without accounting for hidden motives. First they identify the key goals that… — Kevin Simler Copy Share Image
“Christian political theory does not adhere to a passive conservatism. nor is it enamored of progress. It is conservative in principles, but… — Heinrich A. Rommen Copy Share Image
“95% of penny stocks are junk. I show you how to find the other 5%, and do it all without bribes or… — Peter Leeds Copy Share Image
“Having a vested interest in other souls unconditionally creates a ripple effect that produces miracles in the lives of those around us.” — Molly Friedenfeld Copy Share Image
Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is not always 'two sides to every issue.' That statement is a ridiculous slogan invoked by vested interests and perpetuated by… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“steam-tactics saga illustrates that (4) Rationalism, unlike empiricism, tends to assume an accretion of vested interests.” — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
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