Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.
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.
In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; and wherever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty.
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.
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.
The Japanese army is now prepared to use every means within its power to subdue its opponents. The objectives of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces are, as clearly set forth in statements issued by the Japanese Government, not only to protect the vested interests of Japan and the lives and property of the Japanese residents in the affected area, but also to scourge the Chinese Government and army who have een pursuing anti-foreign and anti-Japanese policies in collaboration with Communist influences.
If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.
One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.
People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.
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.
Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest.
The state is captive to vested interests.
There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.
merica was middle-class for the very start - the people who came first were hyper-strivers from England. There were no vested interests, no ranks, no classes, it was very lightly populated, there were unlimited natural resources - for free essentially - if you failed, you could always start over.
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.
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.
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.
By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. 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.
