Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I have argued that the Soviet story is one of the interaction of speculative excess or utopian aspirations with refractory reality. "

Paul Craig Roberts

Related Quotes:

" Marx and Lenin were ahead of their time. Marx wrote before offshoring of jobs and the financialization of the economy. Lenin presided over a communist revolution that jumped the gun by taking place in a country in which feudal elements still predominated over capitalism. "

Paul Craig Roberts

" Corporations and Wall Street in pursuit of short-term profits have given the economy away. "

Paul Craig Roberts

" Paul Krugman, a professor at MIT and a consultant to the IMF, the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Trilateral Commission, is certainly a member of the establishment. "

Paul Craig Roberts

" Whether one has a favorable or unfavorable opinion of unions, their demise is also the demise of countervailing power. A system in which there is no countervailing power is a tyranny in which power is unconstrained and unaccountable. "

Paul Craig Roberts

" Trump has more understanding and insight than his opponents realize. For a man such as Trump to risk acquiring so many powerful enemies and to risk his wealth and reputation, he had to have known that the people's dissatisfaction with the ruling establishment meant he could be elected president. "

Paul Craig Roberts

" The American people and the entire world need to understand that the threat to life on earth resides in Washington and that until Washington is fundamentally and totally changed, this threat will remain as the worse threat to life on earth. "

Paul Craig Roberts

" If it turns out that global warming and ocean acidification are consequences of capitalism's carbon-based energy system, the entire world could end up dead from the external costs of capitalism. "

Paul Craig Roberts

" Clearly what differentiates the U.S. from other countries is the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution defines us as a people. Without the Constitution, we would be a different country. Therefore, to lose the Constitution is to lose the country. "

Paul Craig Roberts

" Vice is Washington's signature. A fish rots from the head, and Washington has led our country into vice, greed, selfishness, and the mockery and destruction of human life. "

Paul Craig Roberts

" On one hand, our food is polluted with herbicides and on the other hand by antibiotics. And then we have hormones and pesticides. "

Paul Craig Roberts

" The foreign policy of the United States rests entirely on propagandistic lies. "

Paul Craig Roberts

" Marxism is the only doctrine that both satisfies the demands for progress and provides a safe outlet for moral expression in a skeptical age. "

Paul Craig Roberts

" Washington's impulsive use of power is a danger to America and to the world. "

Paul Craig Roberts

" The road to economic well-being is to reward productive economic activity and to provide a moderate and predictable growth of money to finance real economic growth without reigniting the fires of inflation. "

Paul Craig Roberts

" Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government deliberations. "

Paul Craig Roberts

" Many foolish people believe that nuclear war cannot happen, because there can be no winner. However, the American war planners, who elevated U.S. nuclear weapons from a retaliatory role to a pre-emptive first strike function, obviously do not agree that nuclear war cannot be won. "

Paul Craig Roberts

" We need a memorial day to commemorate the victims of neoliberal globalization. "

Paul Craig Roberts

" The human capital of most macroeconomists, heavily invested in demand management, was wiped out by the policy failures of the 1970s. "

Paul Craig Roberts

" Humans regard animals as worthy of protection only when they are on the verge of extinction. "

Paul Craig Roberts

" The Golden Rule is to 'do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' Allegedly, America is a Christian country. This means that Christian America is following Jesus' Sermon on the Mount in a masochistic way. "

Paul Craig Roberts

" I did not think the Oligarchy would allow Trump to win. However, it seems that the oligarchs were deceived by their own media propaganda. "

Paul Craig Roberts

" Hillary Clinton, an agent for the Oligarchy, was defeated despite the vicious media campaign against Donald Trump. This shows that the media and the political establishments of the political parties no longer have credibility with the American people. "

Paul Craig Roberts

" Jobs offshoring began with manufacturing, but the rise of the high-speed Internet made it possible to move offshore tradable professional skills, such as software engineering, information technology, various forms of engineering, architecture, accounting, and even the medical reading of MRIs and CT-Scans. "

Paul Craig Roberts

" God made a mistake when he gave to humans, infected as they are with evil, jurisdiction over Earth. He should have given jurisdiction to animals. "

Paul Craig Roberts