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  • Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

  • The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests.

    Jawaharlal Nehru (1989). “Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography : with Musings on Recent Events in India”, Vintage
  • Every restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal.

    Ludwig von Mises (2013). “The Theory of Money and Credit”, p.255, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • ISTPs have a vested interest in practical and applied science, especially in the field of mechanics.

    Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (2010). “Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type”, p.96, Hachette UK
  • Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too self important to laugh at their own frequently ridiculous behavior have vested interest in gravity because it supports their illusions of grandosity.

    Self   People   Laughing  
    Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.154, Bantam
  • In fact, Capitalism has a vested interest in creating new wants and making people unhappy until they acquire the next good.

    Source: bobmorris.biz
  • Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

    Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.107, Penguin UK
  • John Lott documents how far 'politically correct' vested interests are willing to go to denigrate anyone who dares disagree with them. Lott has done us all a service by his thorough, thoughtful scholarly approach to a highly controversial issue.

  • 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.

    "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey/ The Clean Room". Documentary, 2014.
  • I could never figure out or probably did not take the trouble to figure out what the great philosophical problems are about. The momentous statements I come across are at best a storm in a teacup. There are quite a number of people who have a vested interest in the stuff, make a noble living out of it, and they conspire with one another to keep it alive.

  • 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.

    Two Sides   Issues   Mind  
    Anton Szandor LaVey (1998). “Satan Speaks!”, p.29, Feral House
  • I think I have a vested interest in thinking that the lyrics are important, but I think for us it's important that we all write things that mean something to us, and I think we're not really in the business of writing la-la-love-you chart pop songs. It needs to have a personal pulling in the gut for me, to want to write anything about it.

    Song   Love You   Writing  
  • A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

    Peace   Ubuntu   World  
  • I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible.

    Sarah Schulman (2012). “The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination”, p.52, Univ of California Press
  • Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.

    Arianna Huffington (2009). “Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America”, p.8, Crown
  • The full impact of printing did not become possible until the adoption of the Bill of Rights in the United States with its guarantee of freedom of the press. A guarantee of freedom of the press in print was intended to further sanctify the printed word and to provide a rigid bulwark for the shelter of vested interests.

    Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.56, University of Toronto Press
  • When governments and other vested interests attack me personally I usually regard it as a vindication, otherwise they would use facts. That's why I believe in the wonderful Claud Cockburn dictum, 'Never believe anything until it is officially denied.' It has certainly been my experience.

    "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.
  • Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

    Health   Social   Worst  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.418, e-artnow
  • There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

    Source: www.believermag.com
  • The fact is that many countries that call themselves free succumbed to medical dictatorship...people are sicker and less healthy...A country which mandates vaccination is not a free country...It is a country of zombies who do what they are told by vested interests who intimidate them and use them to make money.

  • I haven't the faintest notion what possible revolutionary role white hetero- sexual men could fulfill, since they are the very embodiment of reactionary- vested-interest-power. But then, I have great difficulty examining what men in general could possibly do about all this. In addition to doing the shitwork that women have been doing for generations, possibly not exist? No, I really don't mean that. Yes, I really do.

    Mean   Men   White  
    Robin Morgan (1970). “Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement”, Vintage
  • My mom used to sell fabric and lace when I was younger. She would bring back these elaborate fabrics from Nigeria. I always enjoyed being around it. However, it wasn't until I started making music that I started taking a vested interest.

    Mom   Fabric   Lace  
    Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
  • I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.

    1936 The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
  • 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.

    Memories   Real   People  
  • By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests.

    Political   Needs   Way  
    Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.5, Routledge
  • It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a vested interest in human misery. Christianity, perhaps more than any religion before or since, capitalized on human suffering; and it was enormously successful in insuring its own existence through the perpetuation of human suffering.

    George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.309, Prometheus Books
  • People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.

    "Do No Harm: An Interview With Thomas Sowell". Interview with David Harsanyi, thefederalist.com. January 13, 2015.
  • American foreign policy is not understood by the vast majority of American people. And that this is due to a media that in this country is suppressed by Washington and by the owners of this media, who often tend to be corporate entities close to the [White House] and very often are arms manufacturers with a vested interest in chaos [in] the Middle East. And as a result Americans do not actually get both sides of the story.

    Country   Media   White  
  • Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest.

    Children   Ideas   May  
    "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977.
  • The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the remains of the Long Parliament, may have been an unpractical body, so far as the task of administration in troublous times was concerned. But it seems quite possible that the wealth of contumely and scorn which has been poured upon it was, originally, due quite as much to the fierce anger of vested interests against outspoken criticism, as to any real vagueness or want of practical wisdom in the plans of the House itself.

    Real   4th Of July   Long  
    "A Short History Of The English Law" by Edward Jenks.Fiirst edition, ch. XII, Civil Procedure In The Middle Ages, p. 178, 1912.
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