
Top 19 Protection Racket Quotes
#2. Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
Bill Moyers
#3. Someone would run a card game or set up a pachinko parlor or start a little protection racket. People would be bribed to do things or not do things. It was what happened when you put people together.
James S.A. Corey
#4. In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in the early part of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an age-old protection racket which depends for its existence on rape.
Susan Griffin
#5. I feel good. I think everything went good.
Hal Sutton
#8. We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.
Adam Clarke
#9. I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.
George Sarton
#10. Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat at four o'clock. He liked to direct it. But, to me, directing is tedious. Especially if you're acting in it. And I'm inherently lazy.
Albert Brooks
#11. You can't rock the boat & act like you were just trying to put a baby to sleep.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#12. Remember, you have the capacity to choose. Choose life! Choose love! Choose health!
Joseph Murphy
#13. Shoes block pain, not impact! Pain teaches us to run comfortably! From the moment you start going barefoot, you will change the way you run.
Christopher McDougall
#14. Beware of anyone who claims to be neutral, for they always have an agenda.
Douglas Wilson
#15. She says everyone you lose here, you find again there. Our family is all together. Her. My parents.
Mitch Albom
#16. That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
Zach Braff
#17. The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#18. It is halfway true that if you are involved in a family coffeehouse you don't have a life.
Robin McKinley
#19. Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.
William McDonough
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