Yanis Varoufakis

“Forcing new loans upon the bankrupt on condition that they shrink their income is nothing short of cruel and unusual punishment. Greece…

— Yanis Varoufakis

“Larry Summers is one such rare insider. His question to me was in fact an invocation to reject the lure of the…

— Yanis Varoufakis

The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy.…

— Yanis Varoufakis

“If you cannot imagine walking out of a negotiation, you should never enter it. If you cannot fathom the idea of an…

— Yanis Varoufakis

Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future…

— Yanis Varoufakis

The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.

— Yanis Varoufakis

We will compromise and compromise and compromise but we will never be compromised.

— Yanis Varoufakis

“Beneath the specific events that I experienced, I recognised a universal story – the story of what happens when human beings find…

— Yanis Varoufakis

Germany is Europe's heart. But bitterness is widespread. Currently the Germans hate the Greeks and the Greeks hate the Germans. The demonization…

— Yanis Varoufakis

I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world.

— Yanis Varoufakis

“Whenever a politician in the know gives a journalist an exclusive in exchange for a particular spin that is in the politician’s…

— Yanis Varoufakis

European Union partners never said European Union partners're going to renege on any promises, European Union partners said that European Union partners…

— Yanis Varoufakis

“When inordinate weight is loaded onto a flimsily constructed bridge, the weakest beam will break first.”

— Yanis Varoufakis

“Most Europeans like to think that American bankruptocracy is worse than its European cousin, thanks to the power of Wall Street and…

— Yanis Varoufakis

“Austerity is a morality play pressed into the service of legitimizing cynical wealth transfers from the have-nots to the haves during times…

— Yanis Varoufakis

“When a person believes one thing but chooses or is forced to advocate its opposite, the result is cognitive dissonance. Eventually, in…

— Yanis Varoufakis

“Fascinatingly, many insiders, especially those only loosely attached to the network, are oblivious to the web that they reinforce, courtesy of having…

— Yanis Varoufakis

“Count Coudenhove-Kalergi put it succinctly in one of his speeches when he declared his ambition that Europe “supersedes democracy” and that democracy…

— Yanis Varoufakis

“Forcing new loans upon the bankrupt on condition that they shrink their income is nothing short of cruel and unusual punishment. Greece…

— Yanis Varoufakis

“Bullies blame their victims. Clever bullies make their victims’ culpability seem self-evident.”

— Yanis Varoufakis

“He knew that the eurozone’s economic policies were not just atrocious for Greece but terrible for Europe and, by extension, for the…

— Yanis Varoufakis

“Unaware of the fact that they were actually paying for the mistakes of French and German bankers, the Slovaks and the Finns,…

— Yanis Varoufakis

“The ancient Greek word for money, for currency, is 'nomisma.' It comes from the verb 'to imagine.'" "So money has value to…

— Yanis Varoufakis

“Upton Sinclair once said, ‘It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding…

— Yanis Varoufakis

“German officials knew it in 1964, as they knew it in 1992: for the French elites, a common currency with Germany was…

— Yanis Varoufakis