Quotes About Profiteering

#1. Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass.

Immanuel Kant

#2. The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health care industry.

Marcia Angell

#3. The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief.

Chris Hedges

#4. Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible.

Lewis H. Lapham

#5. Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering.

Shaffi Mather

#6. Whereas once it was the customer who favored the merchant by dealing with him, conditions changed until it was the merchant who favored the customer by selling to him. That is bad for business. Monopoly is bad for business. Profiteering

Henry Ford

#7. The key word in profiteering is profit.

Martin Shkreli

#8. The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That board administers the finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group. The system is private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people's money.

Charles A. Lindbergh

#9. Your people sell the weapons. My people use them.

Henry V. O'Neil

#10. I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!

Carla Bruni

#11. The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

George Jean Nathan

#12. Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

Abraham Lincoln

#13. Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#14. Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.

Francis Ford Coppola

#15. What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?

John Green

#16. Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

John B. S. Haldane

#17. I can't believe I just rejected him. I'm stunned, but I also feel like giving myself a standing ovation. I just resisted the advances of Nate Thornhill, my fantasy of almost three years. I should win a willpower award.

Colleen Masters

#18. Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain.

Dennis Overbye

#19. In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The Earth shook to the sounds of man, three miles away. The candle lit ... only someone stripped of awe can leave a launch untouched.

Jonathan Alter

#20. There more we read the Holy Bible, there more we will believe in God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. Belief and faith have nothing to do with each other. Beliefs are the manifestation of fear whereas faith comes from courage.

Debasish Mridha