Quotes About Mafias

It is tough for an actress to raise her voice on sexual harassment because the chances are they will question your character, they will ruin your career, and they will defeat you in the power game. So one has to be very strong to fight against these white-collar mafias.

las alianzas mafiosas del poder político y empresarios influyentes para, prostituyendo el mercado, repartirse dádivas, monopolios y prebendas—.

Los partidos políticos, sepan ustedes de boca del que nació en uno, son unas mafias descaradas, unas camarillas avorazadas, unos aprovechadores privados que se las dan de servidores públicos y a los que se les hace agua la boca invocando a la patria. No hay tal. No la quieren.

Putin's ability to maneuver between the city government, the security services, and the mafias that controlled many of the country's leading export industries.

The Russian public wanted to see the oligarchs cut down to size and their political influence reduced. That was a tall order—but the oligarchs as a class were indeed changing. Those who had acquired assets in the 1990s wanted to see those assets defended, so they tended to support efforts to reduce the power of mafias and criminal organizations—groups that use their power to seize others' businesses.

Formal property's contribution to mankind is not the protection of ownership; squatters, housing organizations, mafias, and even primitive tribes manage to protect their assets quite efficiently. Property's real breakthrough is that it radically improved the flow of communications about assets and their potential.