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War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war. Smedley Butler

War You Peace Few Pay Profit Way Out Has-Been Only Wipe Taking Disarmament Smashed Geneva Well-Meaning Always Been Impractical Effectively End Conferences Stop Racket Many Groups Eliminate Resolutions

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. Al Capone

Capitalism Class Ruling Ruling Class Legitimate Racket

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. Smedley Butler

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

War Nothing Believe Defense Else Adequate Just Racket Coastline

Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the Negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. Sojourner Truth

Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket. Nick Tosches

Life Writing Life Is A Everything Sincerity Racket

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. Robert Kennedy

Confusion Crime Young Increase Everything Philosophy Adult Cheap Juvenile Racket Organized Cynicism Tolerating Among

Where the grifter is shameless, the grafter shrinks from exposure, which could only endanger the racket. He is greedy but not creatively ambitious. He toils in mundane self-dealing, insider trading, bribe taking, witness tampering, and other forms of workaday corruption. Jacob Weisberg

Corruption Witness Greedy Other Insider Only Could Shameless He Taking Trading Ambitious Endanger Where Which Forms Racket Bribe Toils Exposure Creatively Shrinks Mundane

I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.' Jesse Ventura

War Book Marine Corps Honor Corps States Follow General He Highly Major Wrote Won Antiwar Controversial Racket Congressional Teachings Medals United United States Butler Two Marine

To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool. Adrian Smith

Me Tennis Accent Australian Anyone Racket Cool

Transcendental Meditation, for me, has been a way of turning down the outside racket and turning up the bandwidth of instinct, intuition, concentration, attention. On the light ends, it's a power nap. On the strong ends, it's a giant battery, and that battery doesn't run out. Ben Foster

Me Strong Light Power Down Meditation Way Battery Giant Out Has-Been Run Intuition Outside Attention Instinct Concentration Nap Been Up Bandwidth Ends Transcendental Turning Racket

Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff. Cass McCombs

Music Lyrics Stuff Racket Play

Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at my racket, reproaching it for playing so badly when I myself have been trying so hard. Craig Brown

Myself Men Net Tend Tennis Badly Like Look Ball Been Hit Trying Racket Hard Who Many Play Playing

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning. David Hackworth

War Saying Old More Shameful Taken Meaning Racket Even

If anything, you just let your racket talk - there's no reason for you to talk if your racket can. Frances Tiafoe

You No Reason Talk Just Anything Racket Your Reason

Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed. Frank Capra

Toughest Part Least Understood Noticed Racket Whole

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash. Jason Statham

Sports Tennis Lot Squash Racket Used Play

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of. Jerry Pournelle

Science First President Writers Nobody Like First One Science Fiction Science Fiction Writers Heard America Sixth Fiction Fiction Writers Which Racket Ever Early Started

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life. Joe Mantegna

Life Wrong Want Public Racket Public Life

I'll let the racket do the talking. John McEnroe

Sports Talking Racket

I'm not an activist. I'm trying to get off the whole atheist racket. Julia Sweeney

Atheist Off Get Trying Racket Whole Activist

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