Barons Quotes
24 quotes by 20 authors
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I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone.
— Nick Clegg
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At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very…
— Willie Mays
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I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days
— Willie Mays
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Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark?…
— Edward Abbey
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Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion…
— Carl Sagan
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It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
— C.S. Lewis
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In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry,…
— Daniel Guerin
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The people who ignite our imaginations in the next century will become the idea barons. Gray matter will be their real estate, and their net…
— Joey Reiman
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According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means that government owns…
— Paul Craig Roberts
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Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you never…
— Robert Evans
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I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.
— Dick Gephardt
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[Among conservatives] there's been too much pseudo-populism, almost too much concern and attention for, quote, 'the people'.... After all, we conservatives are on the side…
— William Kristol
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It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in the century that has seen…
— Joseph Sobran
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under…
— C.S. Lewis
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Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be…
— Naomi Klein
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Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours…
— Banksy
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I bet you Cinderella didn't get along with Prince Charming's friends. Oh sure, the knights and barons probably put up with her on account that…
— Janette Rallison
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You have to believe him, because he's going to have your entire palace up in arms and your court in chaos and every member of…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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When John Kennedy attempted to take the government back from the back from the robber barons, he was brutally murdered. The message to future US…
— Alex Jones
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My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied…
— David Mamet
Who Wrote These Barons Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 24 Barons Quotes as follows: