Quotes About Vested

The British, like the Americans, demanded oaths of allegiance, reasoning that anybody who signed would have a vested stake in British victory.

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.

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

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.

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.

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

Political power in the one-party system was vested in collective bodies such as the party congress, which met annually in the early years, and its elected interim surrogate, the Central Committee.

The framers of our constitution had the sagacity to vest in Congress all implied powers: that is, powers necessary and proper to carry into effect all the delegated powers wherever vested.

People usually never support a simple person's valid, honest point on his individual social networking account, but if that hits their vested interest like an electric current, then they will instantly give thereupon an unpleasant comment

The protest against the unjust laws and injustice fails or does not bear any fruitful result when it is led by those who have hidden vested interest and this creates more social unrest & distrust in the public mind towards the authority.

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.

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.

have discussed already some of the reasons why the reality of the abduction phenomenon has been so difficult for our culture to accept – the material and philosophical vested interests, for example, attached to the Western worldview.

The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas

The vanity of the contents" of individual experience is scrutable as an inessential trapping drawn into a matter by vested interests "…since it is at the same time the vanity of the self that knows itself to be vain

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

She spoke with all the authority vested in her by her flea-market prayer beads and her lotus-flower tramp stamp.

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

In a hierarchical organization, the responsibility for setting strategy and direction is vested in a handful of senior executives. Those at the top are expected to be uniquely farsighted, inquisitive, and creative. In practice, this is often not the case.

Intellectually we know all we need to know, technologically we could remedy our plight starting today, but inertia and vested interests rule.

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.

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

For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a nonterroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests. It

For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests.