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Quotes About Profiteers

Alfred Baker, Town Clerk of Hertford and Treasurer of the Society of Vigilantes. Their campaign slogan ran: HINDER THE HUNS PARALYSE PROFITEERS PURIFY POLITICS WIN THE WAR
~ Philip Hoare
You'll have the right to be angry about Vault 7 only after you boycott dragnet surveillance data providers like Google, Microsoft, Skype, Facebook and LinkedIn. The true threat is coming from the private sector surveillance profiteers.
~ James Scott
I say, doctors are the profiteers of death and unclaimed cadavers that were once inhabited by homeless and wondering poets!
~ Rawi Hage
carpetbaggers
~ Jung Chang
In successive speeches in 1920 he called for the hanging of war profiteers and racketeers; he identified them as the Jews; and then he began to concentrate his venom on the Jews as a whole, on the Ostjuden from Russia, and on the 'Polish-Jewish vermin' who had flooded into Vienna and Germany.
~ David Irving
No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.
~ Rose Pastor Stokes
One way to start to think about incentives is to ask four questions about a particular choice architecture: Who uses? Who chooses? Who pays? Who profits?
~ Richard H. Thaler
It should come as no surprise, then, that there is a strong but sad parallel in the human jungle. We too have profiteers who mimic trigger features for our own brand of automatic responding. Unlike the mostly instinctive response sequences of nonhumans, however, our automatic tapes usually develop from psychological principles or stereotypes we have learned to accept.
~ Robert B. Cialdini
Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.
~ will.i.am
In time of war the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers.
~ August Bebel
The decree against parasitism was originally formulated for Gypsies, then broad-mindedly expanded to include dissidents and all sorts of profiteers
~ Martin Cruz Smith
We need a new approach to reducing gun violence. Rather than demonizing gun owners, perhaps we should focus on cutting funds from the gun profiteers. Instead of concentrating on the issue of rights, maybe we should approach it as an issue of conscience.
~ Shane Claiborne
no view of men except as sacrificial animals and profiteers-on-sacrifice, as victims and parasites—that it permits no concept of a benevolent co-existence
~ Ayn Rand
Why, Dr. Livingstone, I presume, wasn't he the rascal! He and all the profiteers who've since walked out on Africa as a husband quits a wife, leaving her with her naked body curled around the emptied-out mine of her womb. I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience. I
~ Barbara Kingsolver
President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke out strongly against war profiteers, saying, "I don't want to see a single war millionaire created in the United States as a result of this world disaster.
~ Naomi Klein
He didn't believe in the system of monopoly capitalism any more than Lanny did, and he didn't care if his system of relief by public spending brought the profiteers nearer to their doom. He had been quoted as saying about the program of the New Deal: "We shall spend and spend, and tax and tax, and elect and elect.
~ Upton Sinclair
I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system - I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment.
~ Naomi Klein
We really need a public-interest government that is not taking marching orders from the fossil-fuel industry and the banks and the war profiteers. We really need a government that is acting on our behalf.
~ Jill Stein
Inflation made it possible to divert the fury of the people to 'speculators' and 'profiteers'. Thus it proved itself an excellent psychological resource of the destructive and annihilist war policy.
~ Ludwig von Mises
It was an evil thing to consider, allying myself with the barest parts of mass awareness, land policed by the king's linguists, by technicians in death-system control, corporate disease consultants, profiteers of the fetus industry.
~ Don DeLillo
suppose that in America everything, including education and corrections, is fair game for profiteers.
~ John Grisham
everything, including education and corrections, is fair game for profiteers.
~ John Grisham
One key problem with private prisons is that private prison profiteers are harder to hold accountable for human rights violations and inhumane conditions.
~ Unknown