“Corruption is a tool of the elite to maintain power.”
Quotes
A curated collection of inspiring and thought-provoking quotes across history and philosophy.
“Capitalism is dying from an overdose of itself.”
“Fear is the primary political affect of our time.”
“The main driver of inequality is the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth.”
“We are not dreamers. We are the awakening of a consciousness that is becoming aware of the nightmare.”
“The freedom of the market is not the freedom of the people.”
“Capitalism is a system that is irrational in its very nature.”
“The most important thing to know is that we are in a structural crisis of the world-system.”
“Globalization is not a process, it is a totality.”
“Space is an accumulation of unequal times.”
“Democracy is the invention of the new.”
“Land is not a commodity, it is life.”
“We must decolonize our minds to understand our reality.”
“Citizenship in Brazil is a concession, not a right.”
“Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier.”
“Racism is the mask of exploitation.”
“Where there is power, there is resistance.”
“Underdevelopment is not a stage of development, but a structural condition of dependency.”
“Investment is the engine of growth, but distribution is the engine of justice.”
“When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor.”
“Development is a social process, not just an economic one.”
“The slave was not a passive victim; the quilombo was the negation of the system.”
“The state is the property of the elite.”
“The crisis is the moment of truth.”
“To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment... would result in the demolition of society.”
“We are a country in formation, where the past is not yet over.”
“Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.”
“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.”
“Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.”
“Freedom is the recognition of necessity.”
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.”
“The Market Can Remain Irrational Longer Than You Can Remain Solvent”
“The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.”
“A nation that does not know its own history is a nation condemned to repeat it.”
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”