“Ideas come to us as the successors to griefs, and griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some part of their power to injure the heart.”
― The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
― The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
“Freedom is never free. Anyone who has struggled to be free knows how much it costs.”
― The Cost of Living
― The Cost of Living
“At some point, you have to accept the fact that any movement creates waves, and the only other option is to lie still and learn nothing.”
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
“When the world you know is out of reach, nothing is more welcome than a measurable reminder that it still exists.”
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
“The black magic of banking destabilizes market societies. It massively amplifies wealth creation during the good times and wealth destruction during the bad times, constantly skewing the distribution of power and money. But to be fair, bankers are just that: massive amplifiers. The root causes of market society’s fundamental instability lie elsewhere, buried deeply in the weird nature of two peculiar commodities: human labour and money.”
― Talking to My Daughter
― Talking to My Daughter
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