It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
There's a vested interest in trying to keep people smoking cigarettes. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption. — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show. — John Polkinghorne 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
National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry. — Edward Sapir 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
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
Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health. — George Bernard Shaw 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
“The only real struggle in the history of the world...is between the vested interest and social justice.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One major reason why radical economic reform was almost impossibly difficult to introduce in the Soviet Union was the strength of vested… — Archie Brown Copy Share Image
The investment business has taught me – increasingly as the years have passed – that people, especially investors (and, I believe, Americans),… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
As regards Hillary C;inton's foreign policy actions and the powerful vested interests she seems gleefully beholden to, including all the biggest players… — Viggo Mortensen 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
merica was middle-class for the very start - the people who came first were hyper-strivers from England. There were no vested interests,… — Charles R. Morris 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
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is… — John Maynard Keynes 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
everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization… — Carroll Quigley 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
Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact… They cultivate hate and distrust of both… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
The United Nations exists not merely to preserve the peace but also to make change - even radical change - possible without… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort… — Al Gore 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
A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that the West is a vast lie machine for the secret agendas of vested interests. — Paul Craig Roberts 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
People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is. — Thomas Sowell 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
The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion. — Albert Einstein 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
