A Quote by David J. C. MacKay

In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder

David J. C. MacKay

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Away Climate Companies Get Get Away Murder Newspapers Numbers People Politicians Understand

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David J. C. MacKay
English - Philosopher
Born: April 22, 1967

There will be a major border tax on these companies that are leaving and getting away with murder. And if our politicians had what it takes, they would have done this years ago. And you'd have millions more workers right now in the United States that are - 96 million really wanting a job and they can't get.

Donald Trump

If India is notorious for never punishing scamsters and letting politicians get away with loot, rape, murder and worse, it is because they are part of a cozy conspiracy of silence. There are innumerable instances of how politicians as a class let each other off the hook after kicking up some dust in parliament.

Sucheta Dalal

Senior politicians and police officers as well as their children get away with murder and run extortion rackets. It is all accepted with some anger and a shrug.

Sucheta Dalal

Globally, the toll-free numbers advertised by companies promise more than they deliver. And even websites are at pains to ensure that customers cannot get through to individuals, so there are no names, phone numbers or direct e-mail IDs to people in charge.

Sucheta Dalal

In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which is hard to distinguish from mass murder if they think they can get away with it.

Auberon Waugh

For way too long the politicians and people in power have got away with not doing anything at all to fight the climate crisis and ecological crisis.

Greta Thunburg

Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.

Bob Woodward

Politicians are wonderful people as longa as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

P. J. O'Rourke

Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

P. J. O'Rourke

I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how all the big cosmetics companies get away with the placebo science and unscientific claims.

Chris Toumazou

I think people have got to understand when a murder is committed on British soil, when innocent people have been put at risk by the method that murder is committed then we expect authorities in other parts of the world to co-operate.

Gordon Brown

Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!

Patricia Highsmith

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I grew up on a farm and, prior to my father's murder, I wanted to get away from the farm, and away from South Georgia where the Jim Crow laws absolutely controlled anything and everything we did. So, my goal was to leave once I completed high school. But on the night of my father's murder, I made a commitment that I would not leave the South, that I would stay and devote my life to working for change. So, my father's murder has shaped the course of my life even up to this very day.