Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. – Tobias Smollett
Category: Citations & Paraphrases
Tyson
Freedom
Efficient
According to some authors (Georgevitch), ancient Romans “The Romans … were very bellicose people. Their leader ordered all the holders of the fort up to forty years of age to be active fighters, from forty to fifty to be guards of the fort, and after fifty to be killed, because they have no military value. Since that period the old men were killed.” Very efficient!
Cold
What I’m sad about is that when America catches a cold, the developing world catches pneumonia. – Rick Steves
Paradox
Our phones are getting smarter, while we’re getting stupider. Yet another paradox of capitalism! – Comment on klix.ba
Universe
Marx was right
Marx wrote, some 150 years ago that “capitalism, if it wants to be sustainable, has to penetrate to each corner of our planet and submit it to its way of operating. When, in the end, capitalism penetrates all the markets (e.g. becomes global), it will start lacking space for expansion (and exploitation, op.ed.) and that would lead to its final collapse.” He was right.
Uncomfortable
Difference
I’d rather live in a dictatorship, if everything is provided (education, social security…), than in a democracy, where, regardless of the effort, nothing is guaranteed…
(Nikola, 03/24/2011, 16:22)
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