Quotes About Opportunism

the greatest danger to America's future came from self-serving opportunism masquerading as patriotism.

As Arnold had demonstrated, the real enemy was not Great Britain, but those Americans who sought to undercut their fellow citizens' commitment to one another. Whether it was Joseph Reed's willingness to promote his state's interests at the expense of what was best for the country as a whole or Arnold's decision to sell his loyalty to the highest bidder, the greatest danger to America's future came from self-serving opportunism masquerading as patriotism.

You can collar criminals until the cows come home, and there'll still be a never-ending supply of greedy fuckwits and chancers.

The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

The Lannisters never declined, graciously or otherwise. The Lannisters took what was offered.

The Lannisters never declined, graciously or otherwise. The Lannisters took what was offered. Farms

When the lion falls the lesser beasts move in: the jackals and the vultures and the feral dogs.

I suddenly began to realize that everyone in America is a natural-born thief.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.

Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.

There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.

I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.

Verträge bricht man um des Nutzens willen.

I believe that he will prosper most whose mode of acting best adapts itself to the character of the times; and conversely that he will be unprosperous, with whose mode of acting the times do not accord.

En nuestros tiempos sólo hemos visto hacer grandes cosas a los hombres considerados tacaños; los demás siempre han fracasado.

war is not to be avoided, but is only to be put off to the advantage of others;

It's like the Boy Scouts' motto, be prepared. You've got to be ready when the moment is offered. If you're not, you can actually screw it up for life.

If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.

Offer argued that "a silent revolution" took place in economics in the 1970s. That was a time when "economists discovered opportunism—a polite term for cheating," he said. "Before that, economics had been a just-world defense of the status quo. But when the status quo became the welfare state, suddenly economics became all about cheating.

By these last-minute improvisations, he had, without calling any undue attention to the fact, become the first president to play the race card both ways—once traditionally and once, so to speak, in reverse. His opportunist defenders, having helped him with a reversible chameleonlike change in the color of his skin, still found themselves stuck with the content of his character.