Yanis Varoufakis Quotes

born 1961 Australia

Yanis Varoufakis (Greek: Γιάνης Βαρουφάκης, pronounced [ˈʝanis varuˈfacis]; born 24 March 1961) is a Greek-Australian economist. He is the former finance minister of Greece.

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What is being offered to the Greek people is circuses with no bread. And the circuses are not even funny.

Politics, I now understand, is at its best when it enlightens us via an opponent's insight.

And the Weak Suffer What They Must? : Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future (2016)

While bringing about radical change is never easy, it is now abundantly clear that everything could be different. There is no longer any reason why we should accept things as they are.

The referendum of 5th July will stay in history as a unique moment when a small European nation rose up against debt-bondage...

If you take an iPhone apart, every single technology in it was developed by some government grant, every single one.

The world... is ruled by insiders... insiders do not tell outsiders the truth, and they do not turn against other insiders...

Why did they force us to close the banks? To instil fear in people.
And spreading fear is called terrorism.

These lazy answers always flourish during periods of deflation. Deflation, ladies and gentlemen, was always going to be the result of this particular design of the euro and deflation begets monsters: it was Mussolini, it was Hitler; now it is [a new fascist international].

Why did he call it dark? Because it was founded on a dark, unspoken, implicit pact between America's ruling class and foreign capitalists and rentiers.

WikiLeaks and Julian, as we know, have been persecuted for revealing to the world, especially to liberals, Democrats, Tories, social democrats — revealing to them the crimes against humanity perpetrated by our own elected leaders, in our name, behind our backs...

We need to change the circumstances of people's lives, so we need investments. We need to push investment up because investment is what we need to create the good quality jobs that will create the incomes that will stop deflation: the markets won't do it on their own.

Europe in its infinite wisdom decided to deal with this bankruptcy by loading the largest loan in human history on the weakest of shoulders … What we’ve been having ever since is a kind of fiscal waterboarding that has turned this nation into a debt colony.

I mean, the enclosures in Britain would never have happened without the king's army and without state brutality for pushing peasants off their ancestors' land and creating the commodification of labor, the commodification of land which then gave rise to capitalism.

A Chinese official once described to me globalization as something that was founded on a "dark deal" – that's how the Chinese official put it to me: a dark deal.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Yanis Varoufakis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.