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Our internal difficulties, tribal war and the nuclei of political opposition seemed to have been accidentally concentrated in the regions with our richest mineral and power resources.
“The heroes of war and the heroes of sport are indistinguishable in militarized societies. War is sold to a gullible public as a noble game... War is not a sport. It is about killing. It is dirty, messy, and deeply demoralizing. The pay is lousy. The working conditions are horrific. And those who come back from war are usually discarded.”
― The Greatest Evil is War
― The Greatest Evil is War
“One can only be respectable with the West if one is a fascist….”
― The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
― The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
“We know more than we think we do, a lot more than we can articulate.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
“No economist is likely to be surprised when rent control laws, for example, fail to control rent, so that cities with such laws often end up with higher rents than cities without them1— New York and San Francisco being classic examples.”
― Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
― Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
“You dream in a language that I can't understand. It's like there's this whole place inside of you where I can't go.”
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