I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Every restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal. — Ludwig von Mises 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
Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry. — Edward Sapir 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
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
A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
To know that you are neither the body nor mind, watch yourself steadily and live unaffected by your body and mind, completely… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that… — Harry Allen Overstreet 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
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
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
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
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
When I worked with various healers of one kind or another, very often what came up was that there was an "inner"… — Fred Alan Wolf 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
American foreign policy is not understood by the vast majority of American people. And that this is due to a media that… — Denis Halliday Copy Share Image
I could never figure out or probably did not take the trouble to figure out what the great philosophical problems are about.… — Eric Hoffer 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
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
I haven't the faintest notion what possible revolutionary role white hetero- sexual men could fulfill, since they are the very embodiment of… — Robin Morgan 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
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
“The only real struggle in the history of the world...is between the vested interest and social justice.” — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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