Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.
Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire. - Yanis Varoufakis
Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.
- Yanis Varoufakis
If the British think they can simply detach from the continent and sail towards the USA or China, then they are mistaken. - Yanis Varoufakis
If the British think they can simply detach from the continent and sail towards the USA or China, then they are mistaken.
I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world. - Yanis Varoufakis
I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world.
I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country! - Yanis Varoufakis
I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country!
We will compromise and compromise and compromise but we will never be compromised. - Yanis Varoufakis
We will compromise and compromise and compromise but we will never be compromised.
The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years. - Yanis Varoufakis
The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.
The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am laun… - Yanis Varoufakis
The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am laun…
Fences and borders are a sign of weakness. - Yanis Varoufakis
Fences and borders are a sign of weakness.
Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by… - Yanis Varoufakis
Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by…
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