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

— Yanis Varoufakis

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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...

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

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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