"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."

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Source : "Don’t Let the Robber Barons Fool You" by John Perkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2010.

John Perkins

#Broken Quotes #Greed Quotes #Empowering Quotes

“The key to making money is to stay invested.”
“There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or under valued, who couldn't?”
“Love, for too many men in our time, consists of sleeping with a seductive woman, one who is properly endowed with the right distribution of curves and conveniences and one upon whom a permanent lien has been acquired through the institution of marriage.”
“The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.”
“Any group of persons â€“ prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients â€“ develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and normal once you get close to it.”
“You don't want to be too cool. But you don't want to be too dorky. Still, I find it so much better to see a guy at a club being a dork, and having fun, than trying to be sexy.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties.”
“And our dreams are who we are.”

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