Willem Buiter quotes

“Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.”
-- Willem Buiter

Source : "With Grenfell Tower, we've seen what 'ripping up red tape' really looks like" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2017.

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“Time is running out fast.  I think we have maybe a few months -- it could be weeks, it could be days -- before there is a material risk of a fundamentally unnecessary default by a country like Spain or Italy which would be a financial catastrophe dragging the European banking system and North America with it. So they have to act now.”
-- Willem Buiter

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“Time is running out fast. I think we have maybe a few months -- it could be weeks, it could be days -- before there is a material risk of a fundamentally unnecessary default by a country like Spain or Italy which would be a financial catastrophe dragging the European banking system and North America with it. So they have to act now.”
-- Willem Buiter

Source : "New Italy PM fails to calm financial markets". "AM" with Sabra Lane, www.abc.net.au. November 17, 2011.

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“Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.”

“I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.”

“When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

“Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?”

“The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.”

“Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.”

“I'm a big fan of Bitcoin ... Regulation of money supply needs to be depoliticized.”

“The Labor Party is a party with no ideals, regulations or laws, and it is a party I will not be a part of.”

“Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.”

“It's one of the biggest problems with the system now. Vague regulations leave the system open to abuse.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net