"Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere."

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Source : "A French Manifesto to Unite Occupy Wall Street" by William D. Cohan, www.sfgate.com. November 30, 2011.

Stephane Hessel

#Democracy Quotes #World Quotes #Financial Quotes

“It's not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess. It's that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because once again they glued their balls to their thighs.”
“A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.”
“It is as easy to create a castle as a button. It's just a matter of whether you're focused on a castle or a button.”
“My errors were more fertile than I ever imagined.”

Source : Jan Tschichold, Günter Bose, Erich Brinkmann (1991). “Schriften: 1925-1974 : Ausgabe in zwei Bänden”
“I'll be home for Christmas. You can count on me.”
“Your god must once have stood at a dawn of infinite possibilities, and this is what he's made of it. You tell me that I want God's love? I don't. Perhaps I want forgiveness, but there's no-one to ask it of. And there's no going back, there's no setting things right, there's only the hope of nothingness.”
“Education has always been very important to me.”
“O the wind is a faun in the spring time When the ways are green for the tread of the May! List! hark his lay! Whist! mark his play! T-r-r-r-l! Hear how gay!”

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