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It is the mark of ancient societies that contemporary tribulations reinvent old fears.
— 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
How can a radical scepticism about the state be squared with a religious dedication to the notion that market outcomes are, by definition, optimal?
— Yanis Varoufakis
Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.
— Esther Williams
They are unanimous in their hate for me; and I welcome their hatred. (quoting FDR announcing the Second New Deal, 1936)
— Yanis Varoufakis
The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.
— Yanis Varoufakis
I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country
— Yanis Varoufakis
Alas, this was an open invitation to print one's own money! No wonder Warren Buffet took one look at the fabled CDOs and described
— Yanis Varoufakis
Only in a popular war against France ... do I see a misfortune.
— Ferdinand Lassalle
When Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western civilization, he famously replied that "it would be a very good idea.
— Yanis Varoufakis
I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
— W.P. Kinsella
By year's end, on 31 December, the New York stock exchange has lost more than 31 per cent of its total value since 1 January 2008.
— Yanis Varoufakis
General Motors is alive and kicking today, it is because in 2009 President Obama's administration wrote off 90 percent of its debt.
— Yanis Varoufakis
Corporatists like Robert Schuman and Jean Monnet were bent on constructing the Brussels-based bureaucracy as a democracy-free zone.
— Yanis Varoufakis
We will compromise and compromise and compromise but we will never be compromised.
— Yanis Varoufakis
The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency.
— Yanis Varoufakis
Greece was merely the laboratory where these failed policies were being tested and developed before their implementation everywhere across Europe.
— Yanis Varoufakis
Simple logic dictates that if you cannot even conceive the possibility of leaving a negotiation, then it is preferable never to enter one.
— Yanis Varoufakis
Ironically, the rise of the Tea Party increased the interventions of the Fed that the movement denounced.
— Yanis Varoufakis
Fences and borders are a sign of weakness.
— Yanis Varoufakis
Many comedians - both male and female - do have an "I will never date another comedian" rule.
— Chris Gethard
Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
— Yanis Varoufakis
We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.
— Yanis Varoufakis
Hjalmar ... is holding him, he'd put the handcuff on him ... one, not two ... he only had one ...
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Years of crisis have culminated in a Europe that has lost legitimacy with its own citizens and credibility with the rest of the world.
— Yanis Varoufakis
It is the ultimate opportunity of a lifetime to try to understand the dreams and desires of a blooming flower.
— Debasish Mridha
This book originally aimed at pressing a useful metaphor into the service of elucidating a troubled world; a world
— Yanis Varoufakis
Nothing is more boring than talking to people who share my opinion anyway.
— Yanis Varoufakis
Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
So in the end, when one is doing philosophy, one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein