Bureaucracies Quote by Archie Brown

“steam-tactics saga illustrates that (4) Rationalism, unlike empiricism, tends to assume an accretion of vested interests.”

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

For twenty years it had been generally known that an insidious Lobby was maintained in Washington to influence legislation and executive action on behalf…

— Margaret Case Harriman

My job, as I've said, is to break down sectionalism, vested interests and a fixed mindset of merely following precedents, so that I'm not…

— Yoshihide Suga

When I worked with various healers of one kind or another, very often what came up was that there was an "inner" person who…

— Fred Alan Wolf

The Japanese army is now prepared to use every means within its power to subdue its opponents. The objectives of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces…

— Iwane Matsui

The state is captive to vested interests.

— Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

Cutting the fiscal deficit is not popular. That is the experience of all governments in all countries. Expenditure cuts hurt certain vested interests, and…

— Manmohan Singh

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…

— Ben Elton

Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with…

— Stephanie Coontz

The investment business has taught me – increasingly as the years have passed – that people, especially investors (and, I believe, Americans), prefer good…

— Jeremy Grantham

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

— Errol Morris

The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas

— John Maynard Keynes