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John Stumpf
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“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
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“Most politicians cannot be theorists. First, because they are rarely thinkers; second, because the frenetic lifestyle they impose on themselves leaves no time for big ideas. But most of all because to be a theorist you have to admit the possibility of being wrong – the provisionality of knowledge – and you know you cannot spin your way out of a theoretical problem.”
― The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy
― The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy
“I believed, and still do, that our bodies are our selves, that my soul is the voltage conducted through neurons and nerves, and that my spirit is my flesh.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“The point of this language of “intention” and “personal responsibility” is broad exoneration. Mistakes were made. Bodies were broken. People were enslaved. We meant well. We tried our best. “Good intention” is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“The obscene sight of those who had played a major role in setting the scene for the Crash (men like Larry Summers, Tim Geithner, Ben Bernanke) effectively returning to the scene of the crime as ‘saviours’, wielding trillions of”
― Europe after the Minotaur: Greece and the Future of the Global Economy
― Europe after the Minotaur: Greece and the Future of the Global Economy
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