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  • Every guild and trade has its own...private patriotism, which makes it resent all rebellion from within and all competition or criticism from without. ...Vested Interests. The manufacture of optical glass... -- Aldous Huxley
  • Opinions have vested interests just as men have. -- Samuel Butler
  • Challenging vested interests requires a government's full commitment. -- Mo Ibrahim
  • It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. -- John Maynard Keynes
  • National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry. -- Edward Sapir
  • The whole debate on what food is best for us is complex, ongoing and often controlled by vested interests. -- Jasper Carrott
  • All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments. -- Randal Cremer
  • In pursuing reform, we have to navigate uncharted waters. We may also have to confront protracted problems because we will have to shake up vested interests. -- Li Keqiang
  • History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them. -- B. R. Ambedkar
  • Obamacare is the wildly complex Rube Goldberg contraption it is because getting the legislation through Congress required so many political tradeoffs and so many unavoidable deals with so many vested interests. But that's no excuse. -- Tina Brown
  • 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 group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother. -- Ben Elton
  • Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies. -- Garrett Hardin
  • The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories. -- Richard Dawkins
  • Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but we have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have. -- Prince Charles
  • Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them. -- Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Individuals and communities need to clearly tell government if they want parity for First Australians. Only this will overcome the vested interests of governments and administrators and see these practical, inexpensive solutions for what they are: a way to finally achieve results, with the strength of will from each of us. -- Andrew Forrest
  • The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success. -- Julian Baggini
  • The state is captive to vested interests. -- Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
  • Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor. -- Agnes Repplier
  • Every restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion. -- Albert Einstein
  • I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. -- John Maynard Keynes
  • Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. -- Max Lerner
  • There is not always 'two sides to every issue.' That statement is a ridiculous slogan invoked by vested interests and perpetuated by minds of limited scope. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
  • Remedying the deficiencies of seminary curricula is a difficult question because of all kinds of vested political interests long at work in the building of any curriculum. -- Thomas Oden
  • The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character. -- Helen Keller
  • Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence. -- Frederick Lenz
  • Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Federal system is at the heart of Indian democracy but UPA is adamant to break the nation by breaking the federal structure for their vested interests. It's a conspiracy to grab power through the backdoor... -- Narendra Modi
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