Vested Quotes

120 Vested quotes by 107 unique authors

Every guild and trade has its own...private patriotism, which makes it resent all rebellion from within and all competition or criticism from without. ...Vested Interests.… — Aldous Huxley
The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone… — Richard M. Nixon
Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it. — Andrew Goodman
Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The fact is that many countries that call themselves free succumbed to medical dictatorship...people are sicker and less healthy...A country which mandates vaccination is not… — Viera Scheibner
The state is captive to vested interests. — Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
To me, I took a militant attitude towards sounds. I wanted sounds to be a metaphor, that they could be as free as a human… — Morton Feldman
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the… — Mahatma Gandhi
The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is… — Simon Bolivar
In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same… — William Blackstone
National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry. — Edward Sapir
Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of… — Frederick Lenz
I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in… — Charlize Theron
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 group,… — Ben Elton
In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us… — Lester Bangs
This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of… — Richard Cobden
Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that… — Janis Ian
It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which… — Jeremy Paxman
The investment business has taught me – increasingly as the years have passed – that people, especially investors (and, I believe, Americans), prefer good news… — Jeremy Grantham
Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they… — Harry Allen Overstreet
everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest… — Carroll Quigley
If you have a privately owned system, there's going to be monies leaving the community that will go towards shareholder dividends and high salaries. If… — Bill Simmons
Does he [the president] possess the power of making war? That power is exclusively vested in Congress. . . . It is the exclusive province… — William Paterson
The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have… — Jawaharlal Nehru
ISTPs have a vested interest in practical and applied science, especially in the field of mechanics. — Isabel Briggs Myers

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