„There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.“

„It is our duty to take care that persons in pursuing their own particular interests do not transgress those laws which were made for the benefit of the whole community.“

—  Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon British Baron 1732 - 1802

King v. Waddington (1800), 1 East, 158.

„Everyone is special in their own way.“

—  Stephen Chbosky, kniha Ten, kdo stojí v koutě

Zdroj: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

„If communism isn't interested in this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never be a revolutionary way of life.“

—  Ernesto Che Guevara Argentine Marxist revolutionary 1928 - 1967

As quoted in The Many Faces of Socialism Comparative Sociology and Politics (1983) by Paul Hollander, p. 224,
Kontext: I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of the fundamental objectives of Marxism is to remove interest, the factor of individual interest, and gain, from people's psychological motivations. Marx was preoccupied both with economic factors and with their repercussions on the spirit. If communism isn't interested in this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never be a revolutionary way of life.

„If the community wish to have the benefit of more knowledge and intelligence in the labouring classes, it must dispense it at the public charge.“

—  Jean-Baptiste Say French economist and businessman 1767 - 1832

Zdroj: A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Book III, On Consumption, Chapter VI, Section II, p. 436

„There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.“

—  Randal Marlin Canadian academic 1938

Zdroj: Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion (2002), Chapter Three, Propaganda Technique, p. 107

„An ancient clerk, skilful in precedents, wary in proceeding, and understanding in the business of the court, is an excellent finger of a court; and doth many times point the way to the judge himself.“

—  Francis Bacon English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author 1561 - 1626

The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Judicature

„One of the problems that we have in the human rights community is that special interests often forget the interests of other victims, and there’s competition among victims expressions that are unnecessary.“

—  Alfred de Zayas American United Nations official 1947

UN expert on democracy highlights importance of free expression, information http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=46355&Cr=information&Cr1=#.Um9rdr_3DjA.
2013

„Excellent in every way around the glens
The two skilful ones make inquiries“

—  Taliesin Welsh bard 534 - 599

„Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.“

—  Charlie Kaufman American screenwriter 1958

„I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.“

—  David Lynch American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor 1946

Zdroj: Lost Highway

„Thou goest thine, and I go mine —
Many ways we wend;
Many days, and many ways,
Ending in one end.“

—  George MacDonald, kniha Phantastes

Phantastes (1858)
Kontext: Thou goest thine, and I go mine —
Many ways we wend;
Many days, and many ways,
Ending in one end.
Many a wrong, and its curing song;
Many a road, and many an inn;
Room to roam, but only one home
For all the world to win.

„It's good to be king and have your own way,
Get a feeling of peace at the end of the day.“

—  Tom Petty American musician 1950 - 2017

It's Good To Be King
Lyrics, Wildflowers (1994)

„When the Morgan and Rockefeller interests harmonized to consummate the great wrong, they well understood that they could not achieve their purpose against a hostile press. Hence they "took over" the newspapers.
This does not necessarily mean the ownership of all newspapers. The perfection of the modern combination is little less than a Fine Art. Here again control is better than outright ownership. And control can be achieved through that community of interests, that interdependence of investment and credits which ties the publisher up to the banks, the advertisers, and special interests.“

—  Robert M. La Follette Sr. American politician 1855 - 1925

"Fooling the People as a Fine Art", La Follette's Magazine (April 1918)

„The promoters of every private bill have to satisfy the [Parliamentary] Committee that their proposals are sufficiently beneficial to the public to justify the Committee in entrusting them with the special powers necessary to carry them out; it is only on this condition that private rights and interests can be required to give way to public necessity. The task of the Committee is to examine the proposals from this point of view and for this purpose to hear the arguments and evidence both of the promoters and of thhe opponents, being specially vigilant to see that justice is done by way of compensation and protection to those who may be called upon to make sacrifices for the public benefit. The range of the subjects which may come before Parliament by way of private bill is immensely varied, including such matters as the construction of railways, the building of harbours and bridges, the extension of city boundaries, the development of water power and electricity, the provision of water supplies, and the alteration of the constitution and objects of charitable and educational institutions.“

—  Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan British judge 1873 - 1952

Zdroj: A Man of Law's Tale (1952), In London, p. 58

„To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.“

—  Harlan F. Stone United States federal judge 1872 - 1946

Tyson and Brother v. Banton, 273 U.S. 418, 451 (1927).

„We look at politicians and think: This one's owned by this millionaire. That one's owned by that millionaire, or lobbyist, or special interest group. Me? I speak for the people. So the establishment attacks me. They can't own me, they can't dictate to me, so they search for ways to dismiss me.“

—  Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946

Zdroj: 2010s, 2015, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again (2015), p. 97

„Pure community is a matter of no interest to any will; but a community which pursues a common good is of supreme interest to all wills; and what we have here said is that whatever the nature of that common good … it must contain the development of individual powers, as a prior condition for all other goods.“

—  William Ernest Hocking American philosopher 1873 - 1966

Zdroj: Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights (1926), Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 35, p. 77.

„It seems to me that we have three choices; first, public services of high standard and cost but of limited scope, leaving unfilled a substantial part of the present gap, not necessarily benefiting those in real need and benefiting many who are not in need at all (this has been our historical approach); second, public services to meet the requirements of all, with the beneficiaries making a contribution by way of fee according to their means, and with adequate provision for complete remission in suitable cases; or third, universal public services provided for rich and poor alike on terms the poorest can afford; that is, the welfare state where all benefit and the whole cost is met by the taxpayer in general. I think it is well-known that I am an advocate of the second approach.“

—  John James Cowperthwaite British colonial administrator 1915 - 2006

February 24, 1966, page 72.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council

„…The L Word reaffirmed that good storytelling has a way of creating community. Fans everywhere have been connecting with each other online, in public and at home-viewing parties.“

—  Jennifer Beals American actress and a former teen model 1963

Speech at 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, San Francisco, California (10 May 2008) http://www.jennifer-beals.com/media/speeches/glaad2008.html.