Yanis Varoufakis Quotes

Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

Yanis Varoufakis

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ValueCapitalismEndResultCreating

Whenever we're all getting ready for a playoff game, you know how serious those games are, and you try to motivate your guys. There's a lot of emotion that goes into those games, and when I play, it's all about winning, and it's all about doing whatever it takes to fire guys up and to get that emotion running.

Jimmy Graham

FireWinningGameDoingYouPlay

Landmines distinguish themselves because once they have been sown, once the soldier walks away from the weapon, the landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal.

Jody Williams

FamilyWomanChildGrandmotherMeal

I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined I'd be in a soap opera.

Jencarlos Canela

MyselfNeverOperaSoapSoap Opera

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Robert H. Schuller

StruggleManAverageSomething

Like now what Urban Outfitters has become is very much how I always dressed in high school by going to garage sales and getting stuff for 50 cents. Cost a little more now, to look like crap.

Amy Lee

SchoolHigh SchoolLookDressedNow

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.

Alva Myrdal

FriendPeaceWarImpossibleBelieve

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

Toots Thielemans

ParentsMeSundayMusicianGestures

My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure.

Ron Reagan

FatherWarFeetStandNeverNeed

Because too many times in life there's just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. So I'm always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come, because they come and go all the time.

Mike Singletary

LifeTimeMomentSongMy Life

If people want to believe that our ancestors were riding around on dinosaurs or that the protracted, increasing, and devastating warming of the Earth is just nature doing its thing - I guess I feel I have more useful battles to fight.

Michael Specter

NatureFightPeopleBelieveDoing

I don't know Jeb Bush. I've never met him.

Michael T. Flynn

KnowNeverHimMetBush

When somebody asks me what a song or a line is about, I feel like I'm not done writing it yet.

Jason Isbell

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