"We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease."

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Source : Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.120, Verso

Immanuel Wallerstein

#Struggle Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Credit Quotes

“Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.”
“He hurts me most who lavishly commends.”
“I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the '60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald.”
“We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.”

Source : Kenneth Burke (1984). “Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose”, p.6, Univ of California Press
“I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think it will be based on the color of the skin...”
“If you have to get on your knees and bow when a white person goes past do it willingly.”
“I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.”
“If I love, there will be no hell for me.”

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