Conspiring Quotes - Page 3

• The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and the Dorothy Days of this world. These are people who have come to understand that no punishment that anybody could lay on us could possibly be worse than the punishment we lay on ourselves by conspiring in our own diminishment, by living a divided life, by failing to make that fundamental decision to act and speak on the outside in ways consonant with what we know to be true on the inside.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Punishment, People, Decision

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• It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stronger union out or from negotiating contracts with lower pay and standards that members of another union have spent a lifetime establishing.

  Andy Stern

  Stronger, Unions, Pay

  "Labor leader calls for reform / Reorganization in order, says chief of fast-growing union" by George Raine, www.sfgate.com. June 22, 2004.

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• At one end of the spectrum are the terrorist gangs within our borders, and the terrorist states which finance and arm them. At the other are the hard left operating inside our system, conspiring to use union power and the apparatus of local government to break, defy and subvert the law.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Law, Government, Unions

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.

  Norman Mailer

  Egomaniacs, Liberalism, Incapable

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• I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you're not necessarily able to tell what's real and what's not.

  Gus Van Sant

  Real, People, Feelings

  Interview with Madonna, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 3, 2010.

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• Kink isn't a crime; conspiring with a foreign power to commit espionage, fix election is. Stay focused.

  Justin Miller

  Election, Stay Focused, Crime

  Source: college.usatoday.com

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