“high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves. ”
Anita Hill
“The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.”
Clifford Stoll
“I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.”
Gen William C. Westmoreland
“I think fund companies figured out after Peter Lynch and Michael Price retired that there's a downside to creating star managers, ... It needs to be about the firm, not about managers.”
Bill Nygren
“They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.”
Aleister Crowley
“This doesn't make them a Merrill Lynch in the U.S. - the main difference is that PaineWebber doesn't have an investment bank, ... But this brings in the wealthy client.”
John Leonard
“(Lynch) was starting to get into an alcohol program. I didn't want to kick him when he was down.”
Daniel Horowitz