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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

— Agnes Repplier

“Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it…

— Christa Wolf

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

— Anonymous

When we apologize we end our struggle with history.

— John Kador

The great struggle of history has been for the control over money. It is almost tautological to affirm that to control the production and…

— Jack Weatherford

The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.

— Felix Frankfurter

Cutting the fiscal deficit is not popular. That is the experience of all governments in all countries. Expenditure cuts hurt certain vested interests, and…

— Manmohan Singh

We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a…

— Ben Elton

Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with…

— Stephanie Coontz

The investment business has taught me – increasingly as the years have passed – that people, especially investors (and, I believe, Americans), prefer good…

— Jeremy Grantham

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

— Errol Morris

The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas

— John Maynard Keynes