Chris Martenson > Quotes

“The bankers and financiers are badly overplaying their hands, again, and people are starting to catch on to the scam.

Real wealth is tangible things produced with tangible effort. Loans made out of thin-air 'money' require no effort and are entirely ephemeral.

But if those loans are used to acquire real ownership of real assets, then something has been exchanged for nothing and one party is getting screwed.”
― Chris Martenson

“Savers have to be punished so debtors can be saved.

Why? Because if debtors are rescued, that makes it possible for more debts to be issued in the future.

And why is that important? Because the banking system needs ever more loans in order to survive.”
― Chris Martenson

“once the corruption decides there's a them and an us, and the us wants to have more and they can never have enough cuz they're stuck in their egos and the ego always wants more so it always gets more. nothing is ever enough for a big ego....”
― Chris Martenson

“Add up all the Three Es and you see we have: 1.an economy that must expand, connected to 2.an energy system that cannot expand, all wrapped up in 3.an environment that is both being depleted of resources and saturated with pollutants. The inescapable conclusion to all this? Things are going to change. Big time.”
― Chris Martenson, Prosper!: How to Prepare for the Future and Create a World Worth Inheriting

“For every one calorie of food you eat, ten calories of (rapidly depleting) fossil fuels are stealthily expended in producing it.”
― Chris Martenson, Prosper!: How to Prepare for the Future and Create a World Worth Inheriting

“preparing before a crisis hits is responsible and selfless, but trying to accumulate necessary items during a crisis is an act of hoarding”
― Chris Martenson, Prosper!: How to Prepare for the Future and Create a World Worth Inheriting

“I'm not really the kind of person who feels like rewarding incompetence is the right way to go.”
― Chris Martenson

“there are two ways that people decide to change: by insight, and by pain”
― Chris Martenson, Prosper!: How to Prepare for the Future and Create a World Worth Inheriting

“In that gap between one’s thoughts and one’s actions is where anxiety and fear live and breed.”
― Chris Martenson, Prosper!: How to Prepare for the Future and Create a World Worth Inheriting