"If there is one number to which the rights of millions will be happily sacrificed, it is the national GDP growth rate."

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Source : William Easterly (2014). “A The Tyranny of Experts: How the Fight Against Global Poverty Suppressed Individual Rights”, p.137, Perseus Books Group

William Easterly

#Gdp Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Rights Quotes

“The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you're always vulnerable to the weather and time”
“Catholic media sucks. It's boring. It's for old people. It's not interesting. It's like you're in a class with an 80 year old nun.”
“I love watching little Paul Scholes, he's so in control of what he's doing and is always so accurate and pinpoint with his passing - it's just beautiful to watch.”
“Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history - the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of heathens, and other no less repulsive manifestations of Christian civilization in Europe and elsewhere - modern man is filled with pride in the progress accomplished, in one line at least, since the end of the dark ages of religious fanaticism.”
“By dehumanizing others, among many other things, these people are also aiding the neocons and other forces of darkness to justify more war, more suffering, and more destruction.”
“There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.”
“It is a sexy country. We are very free with our bodies.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.”

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