Quotes About Racket

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

There are only two reasons why you should ever be asked to give your youngsters. One is defense of our homes. The other is the defense of our Bill of Rights and particularly the right to worship God as we see fit. Every other reason advanced for the murder of young men is a racket, pure and simple.

The only way to smash this racket is to conscript capital and industry and labor before the nations manhood can be conscripted.

Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.

I don't think I'm one of those guys who won't pick up a racket for three years...I love hitting tennis balls.

In my eyes, Bobby Boss was nothing less than evil, a wide-boy of working-class sport, a cowboy on the make, one of the little men who sells you more seats than he has to offer, wants more cash than there are receipts to show for it, an expert in securing a bit of this, a bit of that. Why had he told people there would be seats when there weren't even tickets?

The typewriter racket was our song of hope.

Stellar Showboat Maclolm Jameson Special Investigator Billy Neville was annoyed, and for more reasons than one. He had just done a tedious year in the jungles of Venus stamping out the gooroo racket and then, on his way home to a well-deserved leave and rest, had been

There's something obscene in this love of the past which ends in breadlines and dugouts. Something obscene about this spiritual racket which permits an idiot to sprinkle holy water over Big Berthas and dreadnoughts and high explosives. Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

Tolerating organized crime promotes the cheap philosophy that everything is a racket. It promotes cynicism among adults. It contributes to the confusion of the young and to the increase of juvenile delinquency.

Darling, my darling, don't think that I don't love you or that I didn't love you, but it's precisely because I love you that I couldn't have become what I am today if you were still here. It's impossible to have a child and despise the world as it is, because that's the world we've put the child into. The child makes us care about the world, think about it's future, willingly join in its racket and its turmoils, take its incurable stupidity seriously.

I love tennis, love it!

About as musical as a landslide.

Late capitalism is a pyramid racket on a global scale, the kind of pyramid you do human sacrifices up on top of, meantime getting the suckers to believe it's all gonna go on forever.

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

L'ennui est le sentiment apparent, comme une couverture d'autres émotions. Nous appelons cela un sentiment parasite ou un racket, c'est un sentiment que nous éprouvons en lieu et place d'un autre, indicible, inconscient même, le plus souvent. (p. 48)

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in the early part of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an age-old protection racket which depends for its existence on rape.

Let's take my truck, Jim said as he hit the gravel. Less noise. And it has a radio, right? With tragic concentration Adrian started warming up his voice, sounding like a moose being backstroked by a chesse grater. Jim shook his head at Eddie as the doors opened How can you stand that racket? Selective deafness Teach me,master.

Badminton joke

Badminton is for the birds.

War is a racket. The few profit, the many pay.