"When the banks create the money, they don't create the interest. They send you into the world to compete with everybody else to get the second $100,000 that never was created and bring it back to them. So if we're in a world with zero-growth population, goods, services, and money, the problem would be obvious."

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Source : Interview with Tracy Fernandez Rysavy, www.greenamerica.org. 2009.

Bernard Lietaer

#Zero Quotes #Growth Quotes #Population Quotes

“The key to running a good marathon is to not listen to anyone's advice the last week before the race. That's when people tend to do stupid things that disrupt all the input and training of the previous months.”
“If one person in America had starved over the last 20 years, you, reader, would know his name. The media would see to that. It would be the most thoroughly documented death since John Kennedy's.”
“You need to know that even as life develops in superficially disappointing ways, there is still fun to be had.”
“Times like this it did seem real I was leaving, and even more that my family, and this life, would go on without me. And again I felt that emptiness rise up, but pushed it away. Still, I lingered there, in the doorway, memorizing the noise. The moment. Tucking it away out of sight, to be remembered when I needed it most.”
“I am afraid that I do not believe that any body of men can have enough knowledge of the past, the present and the future to establish "development priorities" which presumably means procuring some developments as being good and prohibiting others as being bad.”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 212), March 27, 1968.
“You do feel kind of nervous about any film you take on.”
“Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.”
“Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.”

Source : "Mia Wasikowska: 'There's a common misconception that the loud kid in the class is the actor'" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. September 04, 2011.

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