A Quote by Samuel Butler

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Samuel Butler

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Interests Just Men Opinions Vested Vested Interest Vested Interests

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Samuel Butler
British - Poet
December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

George Bernard Shaw

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 are people who are vested interests in that film. But with back-up singers, because they did stuff for everybody, there's no one party that has any vested interest in seeing the story told.

Morgan Neville

Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football primarily by the climate deniers who have a vested interested in maintaining the status quo. That includes certain industrial interests, financial interests and political interests.

James Balog

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

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.

George Bernard Shaw

The state is captive to vested interests.

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

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

The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed to recognise that the state and public sector can become a vested interest capable of oppression as much as the vested interests of wealth and capital. it was based on a false view of class that became too rigid to explain or illuminate the nature of class division today.

Tony Blair

Every restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal.

Ludwig von Mises

There is big resistance from vested interests in China that don't want to open up to competition.

Henry Paulson

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.