64 Quotes by Rodrigue Tremblay

It is always possible that a revolution will make things worse for everybody, rather than improve things for some.

Like all ‘Ponzi schemes’, [the] pyramiding of debts with no liquid assets behind them is bound to implode sooner or later.

Each time a government circulates photos of dead babies to justify an act of military aggression against a foreign country, one has to ask if this is not part of a campaign of artful disinformation to manipulate public opinion, and if it is a case of a ‘false flag operation’.

To build a compact strong enough to steer a democratic country on the path of a permanent war economy takes an alliance of interests between militarists, industrialists, politicians, sycophants and propagandists.– These are the five pillars of the military-industrial complex, as it can be found today in the United States.

The fact that we do not have a good government does not mean that we are not governed.

It would be nothing less than scandalous for the United States of America, which was founded on humanistic and democratic principles, to attempt to replace the old empires of the past and to deny the fundamental democratic right of other peoples and other nations to self-determination.

People who make hell on Earth often have the crazy idea that they are bound for a heaven after death.

An organized and coherent minority is usually stronger politically than a disorganized and divided majority.

As an economist but also as a humanist, I believe that collectively, we must aim at creating the greatest good for the greatest number of people, not the maximizing of purely selfish personal financial objectives.