"For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?"

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Source : Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

Fredric Jameson

#Military Quotes #Might Quotes #Influence Quotes

“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.”
“All new ideas pass through three stages: first they are dismissed as nonsense, then they are rejected as being against religion and finally they are acknowledged as the truth, with the proviso from the initial opponents that they knew it all along.”
“Viewers can hate a character and at the same time can't take their eyes off of him.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The horror genre has been for me an original way of taking an explicit visual and visionary approach to directing.”
“I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the capitalist world-economy.”
“I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.”
“He is very fond of me, almost too fond. I could do with less caressing and more rationality. I should like to be less of a pet and more of a friend, if I might choose; but I won't complain of that: I am only afraid his affection loses in depth where it gains in ardour. I sometimes liken it to a fire of dry twigs and branches compared with one of solid coal, very bright and hot; but if it should burn itself out and leave nothing but ashes behind.”
“I consider him [i.e Stalin] one of the greatest persons in the history of mankind. In the history of Russia he was, in my opinion, even greater than Lenin. Until Stalin's death I was anti-Stalinist, but I always regarded him as a brilliant personality.”

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