Smedley Butler Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 30, 1881 - June 21, 1940

Topics

BestWarPeopleSmallBelieveGroup

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.

John Bardeen

ScienceGrowsFieldFrontiersEver

I still bump into Spurs fans who say: 'Why did you have to go?' I say back: 'What more could I have done?' I talk to them and I think they appreciate I had good reasons.

Jermain Defoe

GoodThinkAppreciateYouBackDone

We worry about appearing awkward in a presentation. But up to a point, most people seem to feel more comfortable with less-than-perfect speaking abilities. It makes the speaker more human - and more vulnerable, meaning he is less likely to attack our decisions or beliefs.

John P. Kotter

PeopleDecisionsFeelWorryMeaning

You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business.

Steve Harvey

BusinessYouKnowQuitStandardsUp

One of the best things to me about 'Skate' is that if you play this game from beginning to end, you just got a complete education on what skateboarding is.

Rob Dyrdek

EducationBestBeginningMeGame

You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos.

Deborah Moggach

PeopleChaosStartFeelYouLiving

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Booker T. Washington

ManDownHimWithoutHoldDitch

Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.

Bobby Seale

PeopleMeBlackGivingNewsNew

Everything I did, all my actions, all of the problems I had I dedicate to God and to Chile, because I kept Chile from becoming Communist.

Augusto Pinochet

GodProblemsEverythingCommunist

It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world.

Artie Lange

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Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.

William Shatner

TodayCityGrowing UpGrowingWay

Some players have ambitions, and therefore, they leave and want to experience something new, you know.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

ExperienceYouNewKnowWantLeave

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