Michael Hogan > Quotes

“We give more economic aid to multinational corporations to increase their profits than we do to all the countries in the world combined.”
― Michael Hogan, Savage Capitalism and the Myth of Democracy: Latin America in the Third Millennium

“When words fail, the hammer drops,
living can never be its own excuse.”
― Michael Hogan, Winter Solstice

“The measure of a country’s prosperity should not be how many poor people drive cars, but how many affluent people use public transportation.”
― Michael Hogan

“We fit the pieces of our life together in a pattern,
but there is no image on the puzzlebox to guide us.”
― Michael Hogan, Winter Solstice

“We make our own rules and lose by them.”
― Michael Hogan, Winter Solstice

“Most stories are not about people
but about life, an addiction like the rest of them
that destroys you even as you love it,
but you love it anyway and can never get enough.”
― Michael Hogan, Winter Solstice

“Not only does free trade have nothing to do with democracy, but in most cases throughout history the two have been inimical. Free trade prospered only at the expense of democracy and the freedom of the majority.”
― Michael Hogan, Savage Capitalism and the Myth of Democracy: Latin America in the Third Millennium

“Ralph Waldo Emerson observed that there are always men who like to feel a natural superiority which is not dependent on accomplish­ment and does not need to be proved.”
― Michael Hogan, The Irish Soldiers of Mexico

“The problem with the politicians of both parties in the US is that neither of them have a real agenda except to feather their own nests. They both have their hands deep in corporate pockets. All the rest is sleight of hand and distraction to keep the public occupied with trivia, divided against each other, and thinking their vote matters.”
― Michael Hogan

“Sometimes you go so far in your life,
you can’t get back
though you know it’s not really your life.”
― Michael Hogan, Winter Solstice

“Marx had it backwards. In the US at least, it should be "Opiates are the religion of the masses.”
― michael Hogan

“Sometimes we know people who are
too wonderful for words. I am not one of them.
Or you, for that matter, as you well know.”
― Michael Hogan, Winter Solstice

“Nothing you did made sense
and nothing you’ll ever do.”
― Michael Hogan, Winter Solstice

“Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool.”
― Michael Hogan, Savage Capitalism and the Myth of Democracy: Latin America in the Third Millennium

“a good friendship euchres the universe.”
― Michael Hogan

“Men do not die on mornings like this:
whatever happens then happens in their name,
like the lives of obscure saints, who exist only in folk memory.”
― Michael Hogan, Winter Solstice

“Most histories of war are written by the victors who, by the very fact that they have won, are prone to discount atrocities committed by their side, minimize their opportunistic or selfish motives in waging the war, and denigrate the qualities of the losing side.”
― Michael Hogan, Irish soldiers in mexico

“The greatest delusion of this generation is that democracy still works when both the Congress and the presidency are blatantly influenced by corporate money.”
― Michael Hogan

“All the wrong questions have been asked and the correct answers are not true.”
― Michael Hogan, Letters For My Son

“When you totally commit yourself to a project and do your work quietly and well, unknown friends will find you and angels will surround you.”
― Michael Hogan

“Perhaps one of the lessons of any nation's history is that the people are indeed responsible for the sins of the fathers; they are not guilty, but responsible for setting right the wrongs done in the past.”
― Michael Hogan, The Irish Soldiers of Mexico

“No law or prior pledge can insure loyalty if the cause itself becomes unworthy in the mind and conscience of the individual. In such cases, dishonoring the oath of allegiance may be a nobler course of action.”
― Michael Hogan, The Irish Soldiers of Mexico