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I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I sacrifice myself for everyone.
Silvio Berlusconi1936–2023At the launch of his 2006 campaign, as quoted in “In quotes: Berlusconi in his own words” at BBC News (2 May 2006), and “Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Willa Cather1873–1947“Four Letters: Escapism” first published in Commonweal (17 April 1936)
Do not trust to that; for these very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.
Oliver Cromwell1599–1658Remark to John Lambert as crowds cheered them (June 1650), as quoted by Gilbert Burnet, History of My Own Time
- Fame
We, politely referred to as “underdeveloped,” in truth are colonial, semi-colonial or dependent countries.
Che Guevara1928–1967Cuba as Vanguard (1961)
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
Milton Friedman1912–2006Interview with Richard Heffner on The Open Mind (7 December 1975)
- Government
It is the secret scandal of capitalism that at no point has it been organized primarily around free labor.
David Graeber1961–2020Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Chapter Eleven, “Age of the Great Capitalist Empires”, p. 350
- Economics
- Work
Untouched by the breath of God, unrestricted by human conscience, both capitalism and socialism are repulsive.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn1918–2008Interview with Joseph Pearce (2003)
- Economics
- God
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
Charles de Gaulle1890–1970Press conference, June 30 1955. Quoted in “Le Général de Gaulle et la construction de l’Europe” (1967), pg 33.
In our movement the two extremes come together: the Communists from the Left and the officers and students from the Right.
Adolf Hitler1889–1945As quoted in Konrad Heiden, Der Fuehrer: Hitler’s Rise to Power (1944)
The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “state of emergency” in which we live is not the exception but the rule.
Walter Benjamin1892–1940Theses on the Philosophy of History (1940), VIII
- History
I don’t believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political exploitation above national interest.
Margaret Chase Smith1897–1995Declaration of Conscience (1950)
Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.
Herbert Marcuse1898–1979“Repressive Tolerance” (1965), in A Critique of Pure Tolerance, p. 109
Stock market bubbles don’t grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality — but reality as distorted by a misconception.
George Sorosborn 1930BuzzFlash interview (2004)
- Economics
- Money
The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world — all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them.
Muhammad Yunusborn 1940“Eliminating Poverty Through Market-Based Social Entrepreneurship” in Global Urban Development Magazine (May 2005)
- Economics
- Freedom
Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.
Vladimir Lenin1870–1924“Meeting Of The All-Russia Central Executive Committee” (4 November 1917); Collected Works, Vol. 26, pp. 285-293.