Greg Palast quotes

“The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap.”
-- Greg Palast

Source : Greg Palast (2003). “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth about Globalization, Corporate Cons and High-finance Fraudsters”, Constable & Robinson

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“I want my fair share and thats All of it!”
-- Greg Palast

Source : Greg Palast (2016). “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tale of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits”, p.39, Seven Stories Press

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“You read the papers and you watch television, so you know the kind of spider-brained, commercially poisoned piece-of-crap reporting you get in America.”
-- Greg Palast

Source : Greg Palast (2004). “The best democracy money can buy: an investigative reporter exposes the truth about globalization, corporate cons, and high-finance fraudsters”, Plume Books

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“As Cindy Sheehan was gathering public sympathy as the Gold Star mom against the killing in Iraq, the Republican party decided to import an easier target to pummel. So they brought over the 'I-salute-your-courage, Saddam' religious fundamentalist crack-pot who can't tell us where the money went.”
-- Greg Palast

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“If you cut taxes on the rich, they'll get so excited and go into so much busy economic activity, that the economy will grow and your tax revenues will actually rise. So cut taxes, collect more taxes. It is a miracle.”
-- Greg Palast

Source : Source: www.salon.com

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“It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.”

“Most people believe that great leaders are distinguished by their ability to give compelling answers. This profound book shatters that assumption, showing that the more vital skill is asking the right questions…. Berger poses many fascinating questions, including this one: What if companies had mission questions rather than mission statements? This is a book everyone ought to read—without question.”

“Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.”

“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”

“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”

“I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.”

“Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.”

“Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.”

“When we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.”