John Perkins quotes
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“The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.”
-- John PerkinsSource : John Perkins (2004). “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.12, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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“I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.”
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“No matter how many toys we amass we leave them behind when we die, just as we leave a broken environment, an economy that only benefits the richest, and a legacy of empowering greed over goodness. It is now time to commit to following a new path.”
-- John PerkinsSource : "Don’t Let the Robber Barons Fool You" by John Perkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2010.
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“The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are”
-- John PerkinsSource : John Perkins (2016). “The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.30, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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“I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.”
-- John Perkins
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“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”
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“Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.”
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Source : A J Jacobs (2012). “The Year of Living Biblically”, p.165, Random House
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Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.126, Thomas Nelson Inc
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