#vested

They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#come #competition #customers #end #endure

I made a comfortable living for several years. I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#enjoy #freedom #i #invested #living

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

#been #come #compel #conflict #divested

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#crutch #desirable #divested #frightening #more

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested. ↗

— Edmund Barton

#exercise #extension #franchise #great #invested

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#deep #great #great deal #ignorance #illusion

I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and this has obviated democratic transformation in the Middle East. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#aware #democratic #east #exclusively #i

In 1998 I invested in the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde Uni and subsequently put more capital into enterprise education to try and help change the culture. ↗

— Tom Hunter

#centre #change #culture #education #enterprise

Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money. ↗

— Murray Walker

#bad #because #comes #everybody #gone

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

#diseases #fear #ideologies #interest #material