Racket Quotes

116 quotes by 98 authors

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars… — Smedley Butler
War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You… — Smedley Butler
War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. — Smedley Butler
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people.… — Smedley Butler
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did… — Smedley Butler
War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War is not the… — Coleen Rowley
When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket… — Karl Kraus
I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should… — Anita Loos
Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball… — Michael Bamberger
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. — Smedley Butler
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer. — William Hazlitt
I'll let the racket do the talking. — John McEnroe
I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors. — Curtis LeMay
I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches. — Pete Sampras
My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way. — Al Capone
Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in… — Newton Arvin
Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. — Al Capone
War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all… — Smedley Butler
I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could… — Michael Parenti
I broke all my rackets. I didn't have a racket for the fifth set. I broke four. Now I hold the record. Now I go… — Nikolay Davydenko

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