“[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.”
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”
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“If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.”
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“As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.”
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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