John Perkins famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.
-- John Perkins

#War #Iraq #Water
I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.
-- John Perkins

#People #Terrorism #Desperate
No matter how many toys we amass we leave them behind when we die, just as we leave a broken environment, an economy that only benefits the richest, and a legacy of empowering greed over goodness. It is now time to commit to following a new path.
-- John Perkins

#Broken #Greed #Empowering
The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are
-- John Perkins

#Fate #Choices #Who We Are
I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.
-- John Perkins

#Exercise #Fate #Choices

A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.
Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.
War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.
Iraq will not allow any action on its soil that could harm the U.S. We don't want any action from our soil to target our neighbors.
The Americans stabbed in the back the forces that worked to bring about the collapse of Saddam's regime and wanted to keep Iraq a sovereign country.
Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.
He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
I've started to look at life differently. When you're thanking God for every little you - every meal, every time you wake up, every time you take a sip of water - you can't help but be more thankful for life itself, for the unlikely and miraculous fact that you exist at all.
If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.
Of course, you canâ€™t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

John Perkins famous quotes

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