There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction. — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
In America, economic, cultural and political power is dispersed. In the U.K., centralisation is a gift to the vested interests. — Steve Hilton Copy Share Image
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find. — Francis Aungier Copy Share Image
In pursuing reform, we have to navigate uncharted waters. We may also have to confront protracted problems because we will have to… — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
All the nations that are adjacent to Afghanistan have a vested interest in the future stability and security of Afghanistan. — Joseph Dunford Copy Share Image
History seems not so much a record of past events, more a catalogue of preferred beliefs expounded by people who have a… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
Everyone makes a difference. Someone who does something for others makes a big difference. A person who has no self-interest to do… — Anuj Copy Share Image
If you're making a film about a band or a songwriter or whomever, there's a publisher, there's a record label, and there… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
Trade unions have stood at the front lines of struggles for democratic change and social justice throughout history. In many countries, we… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The key.. will be a new public awareness of how serious is the threat to the global environment. Those who have a… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence… — Shawn Ashmore Copy Share Image
The fact is that many countries that call themselves free succumbed to medical dictatorship...people are sicker and less healthy...A country which mandates… — Viera Scheibner Copy Share Image
Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Meditation is the art of awareness. And once you are aware, out of your awareness your actions will arise - not out… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
Nothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable.… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It follows that acceleration in the rate of change will result in an increasing need for reorganization. Reorganization is usually feared, because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Fight Master' is a show that Spike came up with. Obviously, Spike has a vested interest in Bellator, which is filling a… — Randy Couture Copy Share Image
“But not really needing to be rescued sort of makes being rescued more exciting,you know." "No,I don't know," Keeley snapped. "Go to… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology. There's a lot of… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“...ideas are definitely unstable, they not only CAN be misused, they invite misuse--and the better the idea the more volatile it is.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Because of the economies of scale in data, the cloud giants are increasingly powerful. And because they’re so susceptible to regulation, these… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
“Do you--should you radio…anyone?” he said, gasping slightly when she nipped at one nipple through his shirt. “Mm--hmm,” she murmured, leaving a… — Donna Kauffman Copy Share Image
“The Middle East is an immense focal point of all kinds of collective forces: economic, religious, social, ideological, and cultural. We have… — Ritama Davidson Copy Share Image
When you scale up your business there will invariably be small groups of vested interests unwilling to see the new ground reality. — Ritesh Agarwal Copy Share Image
All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction… — Randal Cremer 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
“Learning, in an age where it was the light to theocratic darkness, was to be feared and reviled because it threatened vested… — Darran Anderson Copy Share Image
The whole debate on what food is best for us is complex, ongoing and often controlled by vested interests. — Jasper Carrott Copy Share Image
Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
“The only real struggle in the history of the world...is between the vested interest and social justice.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In fact, Capitalism has a vested interest in creating new wants and making people unhappy until they acquire the next good. — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
What does the public want? It wants a vested interest in its own energy provision - driving more efficient behaviour. It wants… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the… — Lalu Prasad Yadav Copy Share Image
