“Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments (which they do not control).” ShouldUseValuesEconomicCitizensNormalAnxietyInvestmentCertaintyOwn BusinessHarbour Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea where Iraq is. They accept as the gospel whatever the government tells them. Good grief, any other normal country would have been against the Iraq war! But we live in an abnormal country, governed by experts in deceptive advertising.” Has BeensIdeasWarCountryGovernmentGriefAcceptingCitizensNormalFellowsMajorityIraqIgnorantAdvertisingNo IdeaExpertsIraq WarAbnormalDeceptivePublic Education Author:Gore Vidal
“Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this obligation to our fellow citizens. Overwhelmingly they confirm the fact that the general mortality rate, infant mortality rate, epidemics, the disease rate - are less than in normal times. There is but one explanation. That is, that through an aroused sense of public responsibility, those in destitution and their children are receiving actually more adequate care than even in normal times.” PeopleChildrenFactsCareResponsibilityCitizensDiseaseNormalFellowsFinalsRateObligationExplanationReportsMortalityEfficientReceivingDevotedInfantAdequateSurgeonsEpidemicsSense Of ResponsibilityFinal WordsInfant Mortality Author:Herbert Hoover
“If Cuba wants normal relations, there's certain things they need to do like become a normal country that respects the rights of their citizens.” IfsWantNeedsCountryCertainRightsCitizensNormalRelationCuba Author:Marco Rubio
“By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet "normal" equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego.” HumansLyingEmotionGreaterViolencePlanetsCitizensEgoNormalRootsCriminalsInsaneInsanityCollectivesRespectableIdentificationDerangedThoughts And Emotions Author:Eckhart Tolle