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Quotes About Sabotage

He had led missions inside China before, but always for the purpose of sabotage or intelligence gathering, or "involuntary high officer force reduction," Peter's mostly-ironic euphemism for assassination.
~ Orson Scott Card
It is necessary to distinguish clearly between sabotage, a revolutionary and highly effective method of warfare, and terrorism, a measure that is generally ineffective and indiscriminate in its results, since it often makes victims of innocent people and destroys a large number of lives that would be valuable to the revolution.
~ Che Guevara
Trouble is brewing in Wind River. The Irish and Chinese are up in arms, and the friendly Shoshone stand accused of stealing cattle. Marshal Cole Tyler sets out to track down the saboteurs-lighting a fuse that will set off a bloody massacre.
~ James Reasoner
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland under the false pretext that the Poles had carried out a series of sabotage operations against German targets. Two days later, on September 3, France and the United Kingdom, followed by the fully independent Dominions of the British Commonwealth — Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa — declared war on Germany. This marks the beginning of World War II.
~ James Weber
If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.
~ Katharine Graham
Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
~ Ann Rule
The OSS had developed a uniquely American cadre of intelligence analysts, but Donovan and his star officer, Allen W. Dulles, were enthralled by espionage and sabotage, skills at which Americans were amateurs. Donovan depended on British intelligence to school his men in the dark arts. The bravest of the OSS, the ones who inspired legends, were the men who jumped behind enemy lines, running guns, blowing up bridges, plotting against the Nazis with the French and the Balkan resistance movements.
~ Tim Weiner
Some people try to be tall by cutting off the heads of others!
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Fake friends; those who only drill holes under your boat to get it leaking; those who discredit your ambitions and those who pretend they love you, but behind their backs they know they are in to destroy your legacies.
~ Israelmore Ayivor
If my life was an action movie, my boss would be the spy trying to sabotage my mission, and my mission would be going on Facebook.
~ Anonymous
It was hard enough to design chips in normal times. Doing so while battling the KGB was impossible. A
~ Chris Miller
It was hard enough to design chips in normal times. Doing so while battling the KGB was impossible.
~ Chris Miller
He is only a man. Success is a pressure. He cannot quite bear it. It boils and bubbles. And without knowing it, quietly and cruelly, he begins to sabotage his success, because success cannot be borne. It is so very easily done.
~ Helen Macdonald
Remember that Backstabbers are sneaky,slick,seductive, and sabotaging.
~ Les Parrott
Backstabbing occurs when a coworker lies low on a project and then grabs credit when it's nearing completion.
~ Les Parrott
A sense of powerlessness fuels some backstabbers.
~ Les Parrott
a saboteur of goodwill.
~ Leslie Charteris
No sé muy bien qué clase de jerga científica, más despreciable aún que la ignorancia, había usurpado el nombre a la sabiduría y para impedir su vuelta le ponía obstáculos casi insalvables. Se
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle
~ Bob Dylan
Many of us are tethered to bodies that sabotage us in our struggle to keep from getting fat, or to slim down when we do.
~ Robin Marantz Henig
The conscientious arsonist doesn't just set the building on fire; first he fills the fire extinguishers with petrol.
~ Tom Holt
The easiest way to destroy a country is from within.
~ Unknown
Psychopathic workers very often were identified as the source of departmental conflicts, in many cases, purposely setting people up in conflict with each other. "She tells some people one story, and then a totally different story to others.
~ Unknown
Was it a fire in the kitchen? No, a bomb in the basement.
~ David Baldacci