The whole debate on what food is best for us is complex, ongoing and often controlled by vested interests. — Jasper Carrott Copy Share Image
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases… — Susan Sontag 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
Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is nothing efficient about destroying the planet as we know it because vested interests want to keep us addicted to fossil… — Clive Lewis 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
If you are given a public responsibility, you have to listen, weigh up all the issues, but ultimately you have to form… — Graeme Samuel Copy Share Image
Well, I come from a background of independent films. This is the first film that I've done on this scale, that's had… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
There are people with vested interest who do not want us to reform our energy sector so that we remain dependent on… — Veerappa Moily Copy Share Image
Every guild and trade has its own...private patriotism, which makes it resent all rebellion from within and all competition or criticism from… — Aldous Huxley 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
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
When governments and other vested interests attack me personally I usually regard it as a vindication, otherwise they would use facts. That's… — John Pilger 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
By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“Why do scientists never debate philosophers? It’s because they know they would be destroyed in argument, when they have to actually clarify… — Joe Dixon Copy Share Image
A critical, independent and investigative press is the lifeblood of any democracy. The press must be free from state interference. It must… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Everyone makes a difference. Someone who does something for others makes a big and good difference. A person who has no self-interest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Would you not say that peace is the greatest desire of true soldiers? Do we not have the most to lose from… — Earl Devere Copy Share Image
“The love, born of beauty was not mine; I had nothing in common with it: I could not dare to meddle with… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The truth is that any figure of Africans imported into the Americas which is narrowly based on the surviving records is bound… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
The Japanese army is now prepared to use every means within its power to subdue its opponents. The objectives of the Japanese… — Iwane Matsui Copy Share Image
We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
Federal system is at the heart of Indian democracy but UPA is adamant to break the nation by breaking the federal structure… — Narendra Modi 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
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
“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
“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
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
Environmentalists aren't nearly sensitive enough to the fact that they are messing around with struggling people and their livelihoods. They forget that… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
It's vital to our economic mission that we fight vested interests, and make sure our country's opportunities are open to everyone -… — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
I've not hidden and I'll never hide the fact that I want Scotland to be an independent country. But as long as… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested… — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
“Your business and your life will change when you really, really get it that some people are not going to change, no… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football… — James Balog Copy Share Image
If multilateral institutions cannot bring about peace and the rule of law because of the vested interests of their members, then both… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
I'm delighted when Scotland qualify either for the World Cup or the European Championship. I always take a vested interest in Scotland's… — Jimmy Hill Copy Share Image
“Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
