"In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies."

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Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

Ahmed Ben Bella

#Past Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Misery Quotes

“I was producing a series about Sir Winston Churchill, about which I was extremely proud, and earning a lot of money as a producer.”
“There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.”
“People will often say "You can't change other people." My research shows this societal belief is not only dis-empowering, it is scientifically false.”
“When itâ€™s all said and done, I want to be able to say I got the most out of my potential. I donâ€™t want to look back, however many years from now, and say, â€˜I wonder if I would have worked a little harder. I wonder if I would have done this or done that, how things would have turned out.â€™ I want to, when itâ€™s all said and done, be able to put my head on my pillow and say, â€˜I did everything I could do â€” good or bad.â€™”
“I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go. There are certain birthdays that make you revalue your life”
“Sometimes if I'm stuck on something, I'll have a drink, and it'll get me inspired and ready to keep going. But the trick to that, again, is that you have to drink responsibly! I've learned how to use it sometimes to help my creative process.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.”
“There seems to me now to be the notion that you send something to a journal or an agent and months go by. It seems to me like that is a new piece of bad manners. Probably. Generally I assume that anything that happens now happened to Adam and Eve also.”

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