"Through exploitation of its influence over global financial affairs, the United States has been able to cover the costs of its hegemonic position, preserve a false domestic prosperity, and mask the consequences of its relative political and economic decline."

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Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.308, Princeton University Press

Robert Gilpin

#Political Quotes #Cost Quotes #Able Quotes

“The dead do walk and haunt and crawl into your bed at night. Ghosts sneak into your head when you're not looking. Stars line up and volcanoes birth out bits of glass that foretell the future. Poison berries make girls stronger, but sometimes kill them. If you howl at the moon and swear on your blood, anything you desire will be yours. Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.”
“It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.”
“In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.”
“Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.”
“The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.”
“Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.”
“Great men may die, but there ideas won't.”
“Maybe there is a feeling that women get judged more about how they look and how they present themselves visually as opposed to what they are thinking and feeling. Especially as a female performer that happens a lot, and I think that is regressing even more, which I find really sad.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com

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