"Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world."

-- Harold Pinter

#Attitude Quotes #Iraq Quotes #Gdp Quotes

“I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear. The insecurity that you feel, and the paranoia that you feel, have been around for a long time - you know it's a liar because it's been lying to you all along - every time you start something new.”
“Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution.”
“Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.”
“Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.”

Source : Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.6, Albert Einstein Institution
“You're not going to die. Here's the white-hot truth: if you go bankrupt, you'll still be okay. If you lose the gig, the lover, the house, you'll still be okay. If you sing off-key, get beat by the competition, have your heart shattered, get fired...it's not going to kill you. Ask anyone who's been through it.”
“That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on.”
“I don't see why anybody should worry,”
“Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.”

Source : Nan Fairbrother (1965). “The House”

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