Vested interest Quotes

Challenging vested interests requires a government's full commitment.

— Mo Ibrahim

Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.

— Desmond Tutu

Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.

— Arianna Huffington

There's a vested interest in trying to keep people smoking cigarettes.

— Sylvia Earle

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

— Samuel Butler

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

— John Maynard Keynes

If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.

— Elon Musk

Everyone should help women. Everyone has a vested interest.

— Patricia Arquette

All the nations that are adjacent to Afghanistan have a vested interest in the future stability and security of Afghanistan.

— Joseph Dunford

When you scale up your business there will invariably be small groups of vested interests unwilling to see the new ground reality.

— Ritesh Agarwal

History seems not so much a record of past events, more a catalogue of preferred beliefs expounded by people who have a…

— Anthony Storr

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

“steam-tactics saga illustrates that (4) Rationalism, unlike empiricism, tends to assume an accretion of vested interests.”

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction…

— Randal Cremer

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

— Albert Einstein

People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.

— Thomas Sowell

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to…

— B. R. Ambedkar

I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money,…

— Dave Chappelle

Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but we have spent the best part of the…

— Prince Charles

It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a vested interest in human misery. Christianity, perhaps more than any religion before…

— George H. Smith

Multinational companies use their technological know-how in their foreign subsidiaries, so reciprocal multinational relationships are key - they lead to a vested…

— Edward C. Prescott

“Much of the difficulty in attempting to restructure American and other societies arises form this resistance by groups with vested interests in…

— Carl Sagan

In the neoliberal era, rolling back the state has in practice meant withdrawing state support and social security for the majority, but…

— Owen Jones

Experience has taught me that advertisers get the best results when they pay their agency a flat fee. It is unrealistic to…

— David Ogilvy

To me, I took a militant attitude towards sounds. I wanted sounds to be a metaphor, that they could be as free…

— Morton Feldman

To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when…

— R. C. Sproul

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

The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the…

— Edward Jenks

It follows that acceleration in the rate of change will result in an increasing need for reorganization. Reorganization is usually feared, because…

— Anonymous

The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

I think I have a vested interest in thinking that the lyrics are important, but I think for us it's important that…

— Lauren Mayberry

The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market…

— Tony Blair

“Civilization is an experiment, a very recent way of life in the human career, and it has a habit of walking into…

— Ronald Wright

“The story of liberalism, as liberals tell it, is rather like the legend of St. George and the dragon. After many centuries…

— Kenneth Minogue

“The corporate system is interconnected and now share a common invested interest, the ability to control through business, the people. It is…

— Tom Althouse

“The person who profits from this law will complain bitterly, defending his acquired rights . He will claim that the state is…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“The root of all evil, the liberal insists, was precisely this interference with the freedom of employment, trade and currencies practiced by…

— Karl Polanyi

“The ICC [Interstate Commerce Commission] illustrates what might be called the natural history of government intervention. A real or fancied evil leads…

— Milton Friedman

“Today I: smoke/am overweight/have a shitty attitude/am depressed because: my mom died of cancer/my uncle put his thumb up my butt/my dad…

— Neal Stephenson

“We see throughout the world extremes of poverty and riches, abundance and at the same time starvation; we have class distinction and…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti