Thom Strim

“No more than 25 percent of the guests at a university dinner party can come from the economics department without spoiling the conversation.”
― Richard H. Thaler, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

“In the anti-Communist atmosphere of the Cold War, U.S. support of right-wing military dictatorships -Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua, Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Manuel Odria in Peru, and Marcos Pérez Jiménez in Venezuela - at the expense of outspoken nationalists or left-wing regimes, was rationalized in the name of national security.”
― Jon Lee Anderson, Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

“I noticed how the attitude of women varies with a man's clothes. When a badly dressed man passes them they shudder away from him with a quite frank movement of disgust, as though he were a dead cat. Clothes are very powerful things.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

“A man receiving charity practically always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London