#ted

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#communications #control #created #facebook #internet

The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#better #born #born to be #changed #contribution

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#crisis #giving #great #had #history

There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#assassinations #businessmen #eight #first #first time

They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#had #i #judgment #man #negative

I started lying about my age when I was 18 to be older. When I turned 21, I started lying that I was 18. It's a weakness in me. ↗

— Rosie Perez

#age #i #lying #me #older

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

So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful. ↗

— John Perkins

#back #basically #become #been #big

When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over. ↗

— John Perkins

#culture #day #detector #found #immediately

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#area #came #children #parents #polish