Quotes
Authors
Robert Kuttner

"For over a century, popular struggles in the democracies have used the nation-state to temper raw capitalism. The power of voters has offset the power of capital. But as national barriers have come down in the name of freer commerce, so has the capacity of governments to manage capitalism in a broad public interest. So the real issue is not "trade" but democratic governance."

Source : "Globalization and Its Critics". The American Prospect, Volume 12, July 2-16, 2001.

Robert Kuttner

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“I war not with the dead.”
“A person who wholly follows the Lord is one who believes that the promises of God are trustworthy, that He is with His people, and that they are well able to overcome.”
“When you take time , often to reflect on the miracle of life - the miracle that you are even able to read this book - the gift of sight ,of love and all the rest , it can hep to remind you that many of the things that you think as "big stuff" are really just "small stuff" that you are turning into big tuff”

Source : Richard Carlson (2011). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff”, p.5, Hachette UK
“You always have to find something to say about the subject and in seven cases out of ten there is nothing to say.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless foes; that place is, of course, the world of dreams and of the repressed guilts and fears that motivate them [i.e., the unconscious]. This world the dogmatic optimism and shallow psychology of the Age of Reason had denied; and yet this world it is the final, perhaps the essential, purpose of the gothic romance to assert.”
“Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite . . . to the attainment of the ends of such power.”
“A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power.”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com
“And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?”

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