"The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from the rest of the world."

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Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.362, Princeton University Press

Robert Gilpin

#Administration Quotes #Debt Quotes #World Quotes

“[Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the thrill of experience ... Although Artaud did not formally cite Nietzsche, [their writing] contains a familiar persuasive authority, a similar exuberant phraseology, and motifs in extremis ...”
“Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.”
“Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.”
“The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”

Source : Quoted in Gustave M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947).
“Where are the songs I used to know, Where are the notes I used to sing? I have forgotten everything I used to know so long ago. ("The Key-Note")”
“What would I have done if my coya had been captured or killed? My mate, Sharone. The other half of everything I am. What would I have done?”

Source : Lora Leigh (2009). “Coyote's Mate”, p.78, Penguin
“If you are born a female and live as one, you can't deny your connection to feminism. I think if you are a female, you are a feminist. As far as my work goes, I don't want it to be interpreted solely from a feminist perspective, of course, but for a woman to have no interest in feminism or say that it doesn't concern her is self-denial. I know that sexism still exists within various societies and systems, whether blatantly or subtly. We are, however, much better off than previous generations.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the Constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which out seldom, if ever, to be decided in the affirmative, in doubtful case. ... But it is not on slight implication and vague conjecture that the legislature is to be pronounced to have transcended its powers, and its acts to be considered as void. The opposition between the Constitution and the law should be such that the judge feels a clear and strong conviction of their incompatibility with each other.”

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