Top 240 Vested Quotes & Sayings

I have come to the conclusion that the West is a vast lie machine for the secret agendas of vested interests.

ISTPs have a vested interest in practical and applied science, especially in the field of mechanics.

Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it.

Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest.

The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.

Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.

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 of the United States.

Great political leaders risk unpopularity, patiently explain their case and confront prejudice, bigotry and vested interests.

The whole debate on what food is best for us is complex, ongoing and often controlled by vested interests.

The state is captive to vested interests.

I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.

Cutting the fiscal deficit is not popular. That is the experience of all governments in all countries. Expenditure cuts hurt certain vested interests, and they don't like it.

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Challenging vested interests requires a government's full commitment.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

In the U.S., highly selective renditions of its history have served in practice to impose blinkers on some of its citizens and catered to vested interests.

When you scale up your business there will invariably be small groups of vested interests unwilling to see the new ground reality.

Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.

In America, economic, cultural and political power is dispersed. In the U.K., centralisation is a gift to the vested interests.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

I'm alarmed at what's happening in Canada. I'm vested here.

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 to recognise that the state and public sector can become a vested interest capable of oppression as much as the vested interests of wealth and capital. it was based on a false view of class that became too rigid to explain or illuminate the nature of class division today.

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 being might be free. That was my idea about sound. It still is, that they should breathe ... not to be used for the vested interest of an idea. I feel that music should have no vested interests, that you shouldn't know how it's made, that you shouldn't know if there's a system, that you shouldn't know anything about it ... except that it's some kind of life force that to some degree really changes your life ... if you're into it.

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 the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.

There's a vested interest in trying to keep people smoking cigarettes.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

When you talk to family and friends, they can't tell you anything from an impartial point of view because they have a vested interest in you.

Every restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal.

If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.

There is not always 'two sides to every issue.' That statement is a ridiculous slogan invoked by vested interests and perpetuated by minds of limited scope.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; [...] magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.

I love this city. I'm raising my family here. I'm vested in it just like every San Diegan is. I want the best for us.

We pretty much won't fund a company now where the founders don't have vested equity because it's just that hard to do.

The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

There is nothing efficient about destroying the planet as we know it because vested interests want to keep us addicted to fossil fuels.

If you're making a film about a band or a songwriter or whomever, there's a publisher, there's a record label, and there are people who are vested interests in that film. But with back-up singers, because they did stuff for everybody, there's no one party that has any vested interest in seeing the story told.

After several years in the league, when a player becomes a vested veteran in the NFL, they play under a different set of rules. For instance, if you cut a vested veteran mid-season and they don't get picked up by another team, you owe them the remainder of their salary.

The constitution has divided the powers of government into three branches, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, lodging each with a distinct magistracy. The Legislative it has given completely to the Senate and House of Representatives. It has declared that the Executive powers shall be vested in the President, submitting special articles of it to a negative by the Senate, and it has vested the Judiciary power in the courts of justice, with certain exceptions also in favor of the Senate.

There is big resistance from vested interests in China that don't want to open up to competition.

You never want to be in a place where an employee has vested 3 out of the 4 years of stock and they start thinking about leaving.

The state and its leaders have not only a responsibility but also a vested interest in defending the sacredness and value of every human life.

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

In fact, Capitalism has a vested interest in creating new wants and making people unhappy until they acquire the next good.

People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.

There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.

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

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them.

Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.

All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.