Yanis Varoufakis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.
-- Yanis Varoufakis

#Cutting #Ideas #Fire
Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.
-- Yanis Varoufakis

#Past #Technology #Brave New World
Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could recoil into the past.
-- Yanis Varoufakis

#Past #People #Wish
I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country
-- Yanis Varoufakis

#Country #Finance #Ministers
Fences and borders are a sign of weakness.
-- Yanis Varoufakis

#Weakness #Borders #Fence
Nothing is more boring than talking to people who share my opinion anyway.
-- Yanis Varoufakis

#Talking #People #Opinion
We will compromise and compromise and compromise but we will never be compromised.
-- Yanis Varoufakis

#Compromise
Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor.
-- Yanis Varoufakis

#Bankers #Debtors #Loan
I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world.
-- Yanis Varoufakis

#Hurt #Believe #Cities
If the British think they can simply detach from the continent and sail towards the USA or China, then they are mistaken.
-- Yanis Varoufakis

#Thinking #Usa #China
The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy.
-- Yanis Varoufakis

#Greek #Democracy #Borders
Germany is Europe's heart. But bitterness is widespread. Currently the Germans hate the Greeks and the Greeks hate the Germans. The demonization of the country has to stop if we want a strong Europe. So I am setting a positive example.
-- Yanis Varoufakis

#Country #Strong #Hate
The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.
-- Yanis Varoufakis

#Years #Economic #Crisis
European Union partners never said European Union partners're going to renege on any promises, European Union partners said that European Union partners promises concern a four-year parliamentary term, european Union partners will be spaced out in an optimal way, in a way that is in tune with our bargaining stance in Europe and also with the fiscal position of the Greek state.
-- Yanis Varoufakis

#Years #Europe #Greek

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