John Perkins Quotes

• I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.

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  People   Terrorism   Desperate  

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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.

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  Education   War   Food  

  John Perkins (2004). “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.12, 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.

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  Fate   Exercise   Choices  

  John Perkins (2016). “The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.30, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

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  Fate   Choices   Twists  

  John Perkins (2016). “The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.30, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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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.

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  Broken   Empowering   Greed  

  "Don’t Let the Robber Barons Fool You" by John Perkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2010.

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