#vested interest

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

— Andrew Goodman

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

— Francis Aungier

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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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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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

— John Maynard Keynes

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