Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the ves

Summary

This quote suggests that the most detrimental and harmful vested interest is the one related to promoting and benefiting from ill-health. It implies that certain groups or individuals may have a vested interest in maintaining or increasing the presence of sickness, as it can be profitable or offer some advantage to them. This quote highlights the unethical nature of exploiting and profiting from people's suffering and promotes the idea that the prioritization of health and well-being should always prevail over any other selfish agenda.

Topics

Health

By George Bernard Shaw

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means,

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.

Tyranny

We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be gre

We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.

Trust

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from o

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

Art

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and wit

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Wisdom

There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to

There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.

Mythology Myths

The sexiest thing about style is if you kind of just take yo

The sexiest thing about style is if you kind of just take your personality and put it in what you wear. That's what I think is cool.

Cool

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string qu

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Music

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

Inspirational

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Benjamin Franklin

Death

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the s

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Douglas William Jerrold

If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angr

If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.

Respect