Quotes of Vested - somelinesforyou

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Joseph A. Schumpeter

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

- John Maynard Keynes

“ Opinions have vested interests just as men have. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find. ”

- Lord Longford

“ 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

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

- Richard M. Nixon

“ No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately. ”

- James E. Rogers

“ But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me. ”

- Robert MacNeil

“ Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man. ”

- John Locke
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