#perv

The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision. ↗

— James P. Hoffa

#coming #free #gotten #government #mob

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#attempt #deal #his #little #much

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#also #beauty #birth #gives #opposite

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts. ↗

— Aeschylus

#beasts #female #masters #men #passion

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#all things #avoid #beyond #conscience #dissipate

True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#controlling #failed #gained #influence #life

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#conventions #despicable #human #human nature #nature

Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#campaigned #carl #complex #destruction #end

These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#code #could #distribution #etc #fascism

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take. ↗

— Barney Frank

#based #broader #compensation #country #decisions