State Owned Enterprises

Famous quotes containing the words state, owned and/or enterprises:

“A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)

“I was a closet pacifier advocate. So were most of my friends. Unknown to our mothers, we owned thirty or forty of those little suckers that were placed strategically around the house so a cry could be silenced in less than thirty seconds. Even though bottles were boiled, rooms disinfected, and germs fought one on one, no one seemed to care where the pacifier had been.”
—Erma Bombeck (20th century)

“There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)