This collection holds 101 vested quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Samuel Butler, Andrew Goodman and Patricia Arquette.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

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

Everyone should help women. Everyone has a vested interest.

Challenging vested interests requires a government's full commitment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All the nations that are adjacent to Afghanistan have a vested interest in the future stability and security of Afghanistan.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I've always supported LGBT organizations and things like that because I felt like I had a vested interest in this, where I wanted to help out.

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

On thee, Jesus, all our hopes depend. In thee all power is vested, even power to make sinful creatures instrumental in enlightening the heathen.

I think watching multi-events is much worse than competing. Especially when you have vested interests because you go through the emotional ups and downs.

I think Netflix have a bit of a reputation for being totally hands-off, which is not quite fair. They are very active and vested, but in a really good way.

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.

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.

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.

I will make utmost efforts to conduct regulatory reform by tearing down bureaucratic sectionalism, vested interests and notorious habit of following precedents.

Married life is the same as dating life, except now you have a ring, and the state of California has a vested financial interest in the outcome of your marriage.

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.

Let me assure you that New Democrats will support a bold agenda to tackle inequality, even though it is certain to encounter strong opposition from vested interests.

Needed reform of the nominating procedures has been thwarted by the individual vested interests of the DNC members in maintaining the maze of primaries and caucuses.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

It's vital to our economic mission that we fight vested interests, and make sure our country's opportunities are open to everyone - big or small, north or south, man or woman.

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.

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.

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 may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

In the neoliberal era, rolling back the state has in practice meant withdrawing state support and social security for the majority, but continuing vast subsidies for vested interests.

We need a multi-stakeholder approach to Internet governance, not vested interests in making citizens pay for formerly free services or restrictions to their capacity to share information.

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