David Sarkies

“It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.”
― John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

“The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined... with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men... who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public”
― Adam Smith, An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. Volume 1 of 2

“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress