64 Quotes by Rodrigue Tremblay

Wars of aggression are for warlike gambling leaders, a way to bet their citizens’ houses to fulfill their megalomaniac dreams of grandeur.

It is in the interest of any country to avoid giving power to idiots, to ignoramuses, incompetents, devious and delusional characters or to demagogues. If not, watch out. More countries are destroyed by their own politicians than by invading armies.

In our media-run world, people get the politicians that pundits and the media deserve.

An incompetent politician who surrounds himself with competent people can pull it off. However, if he is dumb enough to surround himself with like-minded people, failure becomes a certainty.

State-sponsored killing abroad or state-imposed capital punishment at home are both inimical to humanist principles.

If it is appropriate to introduce economic rationality into public debates, we must be careful not to throw out the baby with the bathwater and make markets what they are not, what they have never been and what they will never will be, that is, perfect mechanisms for allocating resources.

Crooked politicians, when facing a quagmire of their own making, and feeling powerless and under attack, will spend unlimited amounts of public money and will sacrifice unlimited numbers of other people’s lives, in order to save face.

Ideologies and ideas are not only about the truth; they are also about interests; – private and collective interests.Therefore, ideologies and ideas are hard to change. And it can be expected that new ideologies and new ideas will be resisted.

Morality and religion are not the same thing. In fact, religion is a prism that tends to skew morality in one’s favor, in one group’s favor or in one nation’s favor; often, what is good for one people is considered bad for others, and conversely.