"In the U.S. more than any other place, the banking system is insane. Millions of Americans lost their houses. Because of what? Because of the banking system. This American banking system is also coming to Europe. We can say today that the banks and high financiers run the world."

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Source : Source: progressive.org

Costa-Gavras

#Running Quotes #Europe Quotes #House Quotes

“A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.”
“We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.”
“But as far as Twitter, I'll be in a restaurant and I'll get home and somebody tweeted and they talked about what I ordered and what I was wearing. In some cases, that could be dangerous, because you don't want everybody to know where you are every second of every day.”
“Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.”
“You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age equals ill-temper. On reaching the middle years a man perceives that he is no longer able to do certain things, that what looks he may have had are deserting him, that he has a ponderous great belly, and that however much he may yet burn he is no longer attractive to women; and he rebels. Fortitude, resignation and philosophy are of more value than any pills, red, white or blue.”
“All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.”

Source : Derrick Bell (2010). “Ethical Ambition”, p.37, A&C Black
“[Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts.”
“Down goes Cena! Down goes Cena! Down goes Cena!”

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