#vested interest

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find. ↗

— Francis Aungier

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It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

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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

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

— Richard M. Nixon

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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

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In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care. ↗

— Lester Bangs

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