Vested Quotes
120 Vested quotes by 107 unique authors
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A critical, independent and investigative press is the lifeblood of any democracy. The press must be free from state interference. It must have the economic…
— Nelson Mandela
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Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic power in the classes. In…
— Irving Fisher
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It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President…
— Andrew Jackson
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The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.... They cultivate hate and distrust of both Britain and Russia.…
— Henry A. Wallace
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There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
— John Gunther
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If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a…
— E. M. Forster
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It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested…
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a…
— Dave Chappelle
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Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples…
— Alister E. McGrath
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When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding…
— Brian P. Cleary
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Marriage vows in an objectivist church would probably run along the lines of "Do you promise to attempt to dominate and subdue this woman until…
— Unknown Author
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I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.
— Joseph Hume
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American foreign policy is not understood by the vast majority of American people. And that this is due to a media that in this country…
— Denis Halliday
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Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The key.. will be a new public awareness of how serious is the threat to the global environment. Those who have a vested interest in…
— Al Gore
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It follows that acceleration in the rate of change will result in an increasing need for reorganization. Reorganization is usually feared, because it means disturbance…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.
— Sean O'Casey
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Lincoln is theology, not historiology. He is a faith, he is a church, he is a religion, and he has his own priests and acolytes,…
— Lerone Bennett, Jr.
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As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather,…
— Gustav Stresemann
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To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when accusations and lengthy…
— R C Sproul
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I mean ... to let you know how deeply I am impressed with a sense of the importance of Amendments; that the good people may…
— Samuel
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Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this…
— John Marshall
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Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature,…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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And thirdly, the FDA occasionally does some genuine public good with whatever energies it has left over after serving the vested political and commercial interest…
— G. Edward Griffin
Who Wrote These Vested Quotes
107 authors contributed a total of 120 Vested Quotes, led by these top contributors: