Michel Chossudovsky Quotes

#1. Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources.

Michel Chossudovsky

#2. I like when you can't hold back. It's how I always felt with you.

Christina Lauren

#3. While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo's reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros' network of "non-profit foundations" in the Balkans.

Michel Chossudovsky

#4. He just tells him to "descend" from his power position, "go away and get rid of all your possessions." Money is only the metaphor here; the real possession he has to get rid of is his ego.

Richard Rohr

#5. The right of conquest is not a right. A society can be founded only with the consent of its members. If it is destroyed by conquest, the nation becomes free again; it is not a new society, and if the conquerer tries to create one it will be a dictatorship.

Montesquieu

#6. The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as result of a global oversupply of grain staples.

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#7. Global poverty is an input on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.

Michel Chossudovsky

#8. The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives.

Michel Chossudovsky

#9. The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world,

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#10. I ski every three years or so. I don't have the ingrained confidence that others do, but I'll happily toddle about a green or blue run.

Cherie Lunghi

#11. Legal and illegal activities had become inextricably intertwined.

Michel Chossudovsky

#12. Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses.

Michel Chossudovsky

#13. Heaven and God are not high above us, far away; they are deep within us. Heaven is not a distant country where there are trees and houses and other objects; it is a plane of consciousness within us. Seekers of the eternal Truth will realise their eternal Heaven within their aspiring hearts.

Sri Chinmoy

#14. According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights.

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#15. Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts (pure theory) and facts without theory

Michel Chossudovsky

#16. For the West, the enemy was not "socialism" but capitalism. How to tame and subdue the polar bear, how to take over the talent, the science, the technology, how to buy out the human capital, how to acquire the intellectual property rights?

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#17. Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.

Michel Chossudovsky

#18. The budget targets imposed by the Bretton Woods institutions, combined with the effects of the devaluation, trigger the collapse of public investment.

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#19. Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the world population.

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#20. The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.

Jack Vance

#21. Relentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape.

Michel Chossudovsky