Quotes
Authors
Alan M. Taylor
"In the immediate postwar era, financial crises in advanced countries were rare events, and before 1970 did not happen at all. Since then they have occurred more often, and 2008 was the most damaging of them all to date. If we have moved back to a regime of regular financial crises - like the one we had from the 1870s to the 1930s - then our economic future will be very different from our recent past." --
Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
Alan M. Taylor
#Country Quotes
#Past Quotes
#Rare Events Quotes
“When you look back, history is not going to be kind to these last 16 years from 2000 to 2016.”
“I have these obsessions that I do not completely understand, with the deep mark, with the ruptured surface, with scars and traces, traces that human beings are leaving on the earth. It is not a comment on the environment... it is metaphysical.”
“Identity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive.”
“The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life [in the West] and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical.”
“Other people's deconstruction of your motivations doesn't help you do what you do. You can't swallow and think about swallowing at the same time.”
“Canadians don't have a very big political lever, we're nice guys.”
“Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church... nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that every where I am in Thy Presence”
“Monster is a compassionate picture without any obvious agenda. And it's effective precisely because it's not a polemic.”
Source : "'Monster'". www.salon.com. December 26, 2003.