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Whispers of Wisdom: Philosophical Quotes of Luc Jorgart

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“One recurrent question relates to the conditions required to make governments implement an employment guarantee programme? How high would the unemployment rate have to be? How high would poverty have to be? And the answer in Argentina: until the protests were unbearable! When this happened, policymakers worked with real urgency to solve the problem.”

“People who can see their neighbors with air-conditioning and cars, but who themselves live in shacks and often lack sewage disposal or a reliable water supply, have little to lose, and may find violence a rational option.”

“Praestat angustus esse quam fractus! It is better to be narrow than broken." The Message: It is better to live a life of limitations, discipline, or virtue, to be narrow (lat. angustus) than to live without bounds and end up broken (lat. fractus) by the consequences (e.g. corruption, exhaustion, moral ruin, or ruinous choices). It is a call to moderation, virtue, and self-restraint over excessive freedom that leads to destruction (spiritual, financial or physical).”