Robert Brook

“Upton Sinclair once said, ‘It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
― Yanis Varoufakis, Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment

“As Tony Benn, the British Labour politician, once suggested, we should constantly ask those who govern us five questions: What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?”
― Yanis Varoufakis, And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future

“When economists insist that they too are scientists because they use mathematics, they are no different from astrologists protesting that they are just as scientific as astronomers because they also use computers and complicated charts.”
― Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism

“An educated, healthy & confident nation is harder to govern”
― Tony Benn