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Quotes About Sabotage

We can allow our ego to react and sabotage or we can let our spirit run free in love. We are always in control of our actions.
~ Karen A. Baquiran
By spring 1945, the time for action looked imminent. Nazi Germany was collapsing, and the march into Berlin would soon cut off the head of the snake. Throughout Norway, the sabotage of railway transports, ports, ships, and communication lines was hobbling the Wehrmacht and obstructing the removal of its troops to reinforce their defenses inside Germany itself.
~ Neal Bascomb
Tronstad knew that if he refused to dispatch Haukelid to take care of the ferry, the Allies would bomb Vemork again before the shipment left the plant or while the train or ferry were in motion. Many more innocent civilians would die in these scenarios.
~ Neal Bascomb
listen, he said, you ever seen a bunch of crabs in a bucket? no, I told him. well, what happens is that now and then one crab will climb up on top of the others and begin to climb toward the top of the bucket, then, just as he's about to escape another crab grabs him and pulls him back down. really? I asked. really, he said, and this job is just like that, none of the others want anybody to get out of here. that's just the way it is
~ Charles Bukowski
there's a point at which sufficient incompetence is malice.
~ Charles Stross
everytime you got somethin' good goin', look like somebody got to fuck it up.
~ Tom Sancton
These incidents were all accidental, but in Poland in 2008 a fourteen-year-old boy in Lódz caused several trains to derail when he used the infrared port of a modified TV remote control to hijack the railway's signaling system and switch the tram tracks. Four trams derailed, and twelve people were injured.
~ Kim Zetter
You couldn't bomb a plant you didn't know about, but you could possibly cyberbomb it
~ Kim Zetter
Let all political pursuits that neglect the poor and make the rich richer be dealt with. Lord, let the spirit of wisdom rest on the White House and Capitol. Protect our president and his family from sabotage, lies, conspiracies, terrorist attacks, enemy infiltrations, and assassination. Put Your angels around the first lady and the children. Let their personal affairs be covered by the blood of Jesus.
~ Kimberly Daniels
Women were always the cruelest where other women were concerned.
~ George R. R. Martin
You expecting sabotage?" "You don't expect sabotage. That's why it's sabotage.
~ J.D. Robb
Edgar Allan Poe called it "the imp of the perverse," that willful, self-destructive voice within that impels us to do things or say things that cause our undoing.
~ Jack Cashill
Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage.
~ Noah Feldman
they had hired psychologists, invested millions in a project to sabotage movies—yes, the entire medium of cinema—to get their customers/players/addicts into a state of mind where they simply could not focus on a two-hour-long chunk of filmed entertainment without alarm bells going off in their medullas telling them that they needed to log on to T'Rain and see what they were missing.
~ Neal Stephenson
Find some disgruntled member, whisper a lie in his ear and he will wreak havoc in your church.
~ Neil T. Anderson
Don't you know about The Others? They're the ones that leave nails and broken glass on the road. They hide things when you're in a hurry. They've only got one arm and one leg each, you know. So they take single gloves and stockings, and they're frightfully keen on keys and unanswered letters.
~ Ngaio Marsh
Russia's intelligence network did its utmost to damage his rival's reputation
~ Niall Ferguson
Soviet spies were among the best in the business, but the semiconductor production process required more details and knowledge than even the most capable agent could steal.
~ Chris Miller
She eluded detection and relieved the rebels of one of their hyperspace-capable vessels.
~ Christie Golden
Corporate managers from Krupp, IG Farben, Daimler Benz, and similar companies enforced regulations under which laborers who "sabotaged production" or left their posts without permission were punished by beatings, hangings, or deportation to death camps.
~ Christopher Simpson
Morgenthau knew that a handful of Long's aides at State had for years systematically denied available U.S. visas to refugee Jews, suppressed intelligence about Hitler's Holocaust, and undermined efforts to establish a commission to document Nazi atrocities. Recently he had learned that Long's group at State had sabotaged a deal that could have purchased survival for 70,000 Romanian Jews for a mere $170,000 in Romanian currency.37
~ Christopher Simpson
The French word for underbrush, maquis, had come to be the name for the men who hid in it and came out to carry on sabotage against the enemy. "Monsieur," said Baritone, "we have the enemy's own figures that more than forty thousand Frenchmen have been executed during the occupation, and a hundred thousand are in concentration camps in Germany. This in addition to the quarter million who have been deported.
~ Upton Sinclair
If you are unkind, insecure, defensive, or cold in relationship because of some belief, that inner climate is bound to sabotage your chance for a healthy relationship. Who you are likely to end up with is someone who is willing to be with someone who is unloving, insecure, defensive, or cold because he needs to be with someone—anyone—rather than because he loves you. This can't be a satisfying relationship for long, and your belief becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
~ Gina Lake
A sabotagem é uma explicação muito mais convincente do que a ineficácia, Vadia. Quando é descoberto, o culpado pode ser punido. Faz-se justiça, alguém pagou e a ordem é restabelecida. É esse o ponto fundamental. O
~ Giuliano da Empoli