So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.
Quotes about rigged (16 Quotes)
Government is the tool of the moneyed powers. That concentration of power is happening because Congress is bought off. The system is rigged. And anyone who because of some schoolbook imagery thinks we have some sort of a democratically elected government is not reading the signs of the times.
Usually, most of the changes and horse-trading go on at the subcommittee level, and by the time it reaches the full committee, it's been completely rigged in advance.
Playing a game with the NCAA is a rigged game. It's not fair, unrestrained competition.
The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.
Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.
(There are) so many variables -- the weather, the wave height, how fast the anchoring process goes (and) how quickly we can get rigged and get the Deep Drone in the water.
It's as if we women are in a totally rigged race. A lot of men are driving souped-up low slung racing cars, and we're running as fast as we can in tennis shoes we managed to salvage from a local garage sale.
I don't belong. Not here. Not now. I have to get back there. The bet was rigged, he made me believe. Now there's darkness in my soul. I want to die ... again. But I choose to come back, why.
The system has basically been rigged to protect incumbents and discourage competition.
They had some really cool rigged cars and things that were different that they would tow behind the camera car that were actually on these trailers that manipulated side to side and stuff like they were getting hit, and actually put the actor right in the middle of the chase.
This country lacks the backbone and the spine and the will to demand fair trade and stand up for our products. If our producers can't compete, shame on us. Then we lose. But requiring our producers to compete when the game is rigged, saying our producers ought to compete, when foreign markets are closed to us, is fundamentally wrong.
But a broken system in Sacramento stands in the way -- a system rigged to benefit big government labor unions who will do anything to preserve the status quo, ... Four measures on the ballot will change the way Sacramento does business, get our budget under control and make the system more accountable to you.
The continued failure of California officials to compel refiners to create more refining capacity and increase inventories will result in gasoline prices rising to 4 per gallon relatively soon, ... The system is rigged for price spikes and the refiners know it.
The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.
Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start.