"The fact that oppressive and corrupt regimes can borrow money in the name of the whole country means that the country's future generations will be weighed down by interest and repayment burdens, even if the money has been frittered away in some frivolous way, embezzled or used for weapons to suppress the country's population."

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Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

Thomas Pogge

#Country Quotes #Mean Quotes #Names Quotes

“I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.”
“There are three reasons why men of genius have long hair. One is, that they forget it is growing. The second is, that they like it. The third is, that it comes cheaper; they wear it long for the same reason they wear their hats long.”

Source : Israel Zangwill (2012). “The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes”, p.180, tredition
“Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the world wars by spawning environmental devastation that could cost 5 to 20 percent of the world's annual gross domestic product.”

Source : The report by Nicholas Stern, www.washingtonpost.com. October 31, 2006.
“As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.”

Source : Marie-Louise Von Franz (2001). “Psyche and Matter”, p.203, Shambhala Publications
“In crime the egoist has hitherto asserted himself and mocked at the sacred; the break with the sacred, or rather of the sacred, may become general. A revolution never returns, but an immense, reckless, shameless, conscienceless, proudâ€”crime, doesn't it rumble in the distant thunder, and don't you see how the sky grows ominously silent and gloomy?”
“Homosexuality involves sexual acts most men consider not only immoral, but filthy. The reason public men rarely say aloud what most say privately is they are fearful of being branded 'bigots' by an intolerant liberal orthodoxy that holds, against all evidence and experience, that homosexuality is a normal, healthy lifestyle.”

Source : "Tell MSNBC that Pat Buchanan Is a Bigot" by Menachem Rosensaft, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2010.
“Every moment brings us some benediction. Even the rough hand of trial holds in its clasp for us some treasure of love.”
“There is no sin except stupidity.”

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