"I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but……" — John Perkins
"I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me."
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21 Quotes by John Perkins
John Perkins has 21 quotes on this site.
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I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.
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The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are
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The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less…
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No matter how many toys we amass we leave them behind when we die, just as we leave a broken…
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I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these -…
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But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what…
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Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.
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These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and…
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This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating,…
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When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out…
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And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein…
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And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood…
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More Drugs Quotes
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious…
— Michael Badnarik
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I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting…
— Steven Adler
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By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to…
— Jo Brand
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it…
— Harry Browne
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I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing…
— Harry Browne
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Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
— William S. Burroughs
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I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
— Jim Carrey
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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.
— Margaret Cho
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all…
— Noam Chomsky
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