Vested Quotes

120 quotes by 108 authors

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping,… — Abigail Adams
Opinions have vested interests just as men have. — Samuel Butler
Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in… — Dave Chappelle
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested… — B R Ambedkar
The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public opinion, by playing… — Norman Angell
That Americans are entitled to freedom is incontestable on every rational principle. All men have one common original: they participate in one common nature, and… — Alexander Hamilton
The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature. — James Madison
Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. — Max Lerner
Meditation is the art of awareness. And once you are aware, out of your awareness your actions will arise - not out of conscience. Conscience… — Rajneesh
It has to come out of the chain of command, because the chain of command has really become impotent. The chain of command is vested… — Paula Coughlin
It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a vested interest in human misery. Christianity, perhaps more than any religion before or since, capitalized… — George H. Smith
To know that you are neither the body nor mind, watch yourself steadily and live unaffected by your body and mind, completely aloof, as if… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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… — Graeme Samuel
I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old… — Norman Mailer
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… — Tony Blair
The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing… — Al Gore
[A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for the benefit of… — James Madison
If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be… — Roger Sherman
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. — John Maynard Keynes
What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution and exercise powers… — James Madison

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