A Quote by Sean O'Casey

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

Sean O'Casey

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Conviction Disguised Intellectual Interest Nothing Passionate Vested Vested Interest

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Sean O'Casey
Irish - Playwright
March 30, 1880 - September 18, 1964

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

George Bernard Shaw

Emerson was not passionate about abolition. He wasn't a passionate person. He was a cool intellectual, and I think he probably was a little uncomfortable with passionate people, but he was against slavery.

Nell Irvin Painter

Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

If you are given a public responsibility, you have to listen, weigh up all the issues, but ultimately you have to form a view of what you genuinely think is in the public interest... put the public interest above the vested interest.

Graeme Samuel

The launch of the National Health Service in 1948, one of the world's foremost examples of something being decommodified in the interest of the social good, was met with nothing less than horror by those with vested interests in the private provision of medicine.

Ash Sarkar

Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it.

Andrew Goodman

The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce an intellectual. An intellectual is a person whose interest in and preoccupation with the spiritual side of life are insistent and constant and not forced by external circumstances, even flying in the face of them. An intellectual is a person whose thought is nonimitative.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.

Desmond Tutu

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

Errol Morris

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

There's a vested interest in trying to keep people smoking cigarettes.

Sylvia Earle

The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.