Syndicates Quotes

#1. Many kingdoms and empires were in truth little more than large protection rackets. The king was the capo di tutti capi who collected protection money, and in return made sure that neighbouring crime syndicates and local small fry did not harm those under his protection. He did little else.

Yuval Noah Harari

#2. The theater has fallen into the hands of real estate men and syndicates and those who have no love or interest in the stage or its life, but who have considered it principally as a means to make money.

Eva Le Gallienne

#3. Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; it's such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.

Gordon Taylor

#4. And this spreading usurpation of the world was so dexterously performed - a proteus - hundreds of banks, companies, syndicates, masked the Council's operations - that it was already far advanced before common men suspected the tyranny that had come. The

H.G.Wells

#5. An element of virtually every national security threat and crime problem the FBI faces is cyber-based or facilitated. We face sophisticated cyber threats from state-sponsored hackers, hackers for hire, organized cyber syndicates, and terrorists.

James Comey

#6. There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.

Federica Montseny

#7. By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.

Friedrich Engels

#8. Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Lao-Tzu

#9. A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.

Gregory David Roberts

#10. In our weeks of talk, movies and friendship, I watched as Wilma turned a medical ordeal into one more event in her life, but not its definition. I believe she was teaching me an intimate form of The Way. In her words: Every day is a good day - because we are part of everything alive.

Gloria Steinem

#11. Oh, Spring is surely coming, Her couriers fill the air; Each morn are new arrivals, Each night her ways prepare; I scent her fragrant garments, Her foot is on the stair.

John Burroughs

#12. Be positive. Stay happy and don't let the negativity of the world get you down.

Germany Kent

#13. It takes a whole government to really screw up a war. A dollop of American hubris goes a long way too.

Rosa Brooks

#14. It's been my experience in life that if you step back and simply allow events to take their course, things will usually work out okay. Or they won't.

Donald O'Donovan

#15. The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

Plato