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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 themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them. -- B. R. Ambedkar
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, will not be fooled. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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. The manufacture of optical glass... -- Aldous Huxley
Opinions have vested interests just as men have. -- Samuel Butler
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. -- John Maynard Keynes
There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through. -- John Gunther
If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me. -- Elon Musk
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist. -- Richard M. Nixon
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president. -- Tom Rice
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. -- Susan Sontag
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. -- Andrew Jackson
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 vested interested in controlling you. -- Dave Chappelle
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, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.' -- Abigail Adams
Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out to get more grant money by exaggerating the threats. -- David Suzuki
Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies. -- Garrett Hardin
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, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother. -- Ben Elton
One of the things I'm adamant about as a bandleader is not micromanaging. I'm an advocate for the concept of allowing everyone to be fully vested in what they're doing, so everyone contributes whatever they're inspired to contribute. -- Stefon Harris
The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories. -- Richard Dawkins
Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but we have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have. -- Prince Charles
Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them. -- Lalu Prasad Yadav
Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust. -- Ralph Nader
Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun. -- Grover Norquist
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. The people can act only by their agents and, within the powers conferred upon them, their acts must be considered as the acts of the people. -- John Marshall
Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects. -- F. Sionil Jose
The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success. -- Julian Baggini
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 a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say 'their life' I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life. -- Dave Chappelle
Fight Master' is a show that Spike came up with. Obviously, Spike has a vested interest in Bellator, which is filling a void that was created when the UFC and 'The Ultimate Fighter' left and went to Fox. I think this fills a huge piece of the puzzle for the folks at Spike, in terms of demographics and what programming they like to do. -- Randy Couture
Sable-vested Night, eldest of things. -- John Milton
The state is captive to vested interests. -- Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
Challenging vested interests requires a government's full commitment. -- Mo Ibrahim
Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy. -- Desmond Tutu
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Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it. -- Andrew Goodman
There's a vested interest in trying to keep people smoking cigarettes. -- Sylvia Earle
Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption. -- Arianna Huffington
We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms. -- George Santayana
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Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health. -- George Bernard Shaw
National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry. -- Edward Sapir
The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion. -- Albert Einstein
Every restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal. -- Ludwig von Mises
ISTPs have a vested interest in practical and applied science, especially in the field of mechanics. -- Isabel Briggs Myers
One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy. -- Julianne Malveaux
The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find. -- Francis Aungier
A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor. -- Agnes Repplier
Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. -- John Maynard Keynes
People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is. -- Thomas Sowell
The whole debate on what food is best for us is complex, ongoing and often controlled by vested interests. -- Jasper Carrott
There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public. -- Gore Vidal
There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it. -- Errol Morris
Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. -- Max Lerner
To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer. -- Mark Twain
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. -- Sam Altman
The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature. -- James Madison
Having a vested interest in other souls unconditionally creates a ripple effect that produces miracles in the lives of those around us. -- Molly Friedenfeld
God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show. -- John Polkinghorne
If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself. -- Mikhail Bakunin
All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments. -- Randal Cremer
On thee, Jesus, all our hopes depend. In thee all power is vested, even power to make sinful creatures instrumental in enlightening the heathen. -- Adoniram Judson
All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; [...] magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them. -- George Mason
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
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. -- Sam Altman
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. -- John Marshall
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In pursuing reform, we have to navigate uncharted waters. We may also have to confront protracted problems because we will have to shake up vested interests. -- Li Keqiang
I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible. -- Sarah Schulman
Remedying the deficiencies of seminary curricula is a difficult question because of all kinds of vested political interests long at work in the building of any curriculum. -- Thomas Oden
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. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth? -- Peter Greenaway
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 or agents. -- Alister E. McGrath
The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character. -- Helen Keller
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 ladies of vested reviewing. -- Norman Mailer
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 -- Andrew Jackson
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 self-consciousness, that is innocence. -- Frederick Lenz
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 of its first two activities. -- G. Edward Griffin
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. -- Abigail Adams
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. -- Shawn Ashmore
In a democracy sovereignity is vested in a majority; and a majority is not only, at best, an ignorant, foolish and emotional mob, but shifts continually and alters from year to year. -- Jean Bodin
Today I want to dispel this myth, because it is absolutely not true .[ that ARV's work ] The pharmaceutical industry and those who have a vested interest in the drug industry fuels this propaganda. -- Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained. -- George Santayana
Top-down leaders, by withholding power from those in the ranks, deprive them of the ability to use the expertise and information vested in them to respond directly and with speed to customer concerns. -- Sally Helgesen
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 can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy. -- Harry Allen Overstreet
I was vested emotionally in 'Battlestar.' I really loved the thematic things. I don't feel it really got its shot, and I can't blame anyone else; I was at the center of that. -- Glen A. Larson
Federal system is at the heart of Indian democracy but UPA is adamant to break the nation by breaking the federal structure for their vested interests. It's a conspiracy to grab power through the backdoor... -- Narendra Modi
There are people with vested interest who do not want us to reform our energy sector so that we remain dependent on imports. All reform moves are resisted. Bureaucrats are hesitant to take bold decisions. -- Veerappa Moily
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 requisite . . . to the attainment of the ends of such power. -- Alexander Hamilton
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 liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism. -- Roger Sherman
Does he [the president] possess the power of making war? That power is exclusively vested in Congress. . . . It is the exclusive province of Congress to change a state of peace into a state of war. -- William Paterson
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 our standard of morals and the purity of our blood. -- Charles Alexander Eastman
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 our standard of morals and the purity of our blood. -- Charles Alexander Eastman
Obamacare is the wildly complex Rube Goldberg contraption it is because getting the legislation through Congress required so many political tradeoffs and so many unavoidable deals with so many vested interests. But that's no excuse. -- Tina Brown

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