Yanis Varoufakis Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.”
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“Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.”
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“Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could recoil into the past.”
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“I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country”
-- Yanis Varoufakis
