#hi

I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward. ↗

— Rosie Perez

#empty #forward #glass #half #i

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft. ↗

— Pericles

#does #extravagance #lead #love #make

I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#comfortable #doing #ever #i #want

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that. ↗

— John Perkins

#been #built #cheating #economic #empire

Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we've been very successful. ↗

— John Perkins

#american empire #basically #been #build #corporations

A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#because #being #called #child #had

To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods. ↗

— Frances Perkins

#civilization #conditions #conference #education #good

And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals. ↗

— John Perkins

#buy #call #economic #fail #hit

But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result of what the economic hit men are doing. ↗

— John Perkins

#change #direct #direct result #doing #economic

I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations. ↗

— John Perkins

#back #business #business school #corporations #i