Matt Taibbi Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

  Matt Taibbi

  Powerful, Blood, Squids

  Matt Taibbi (2010). “Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America”, p.209, Spiegel & Grau

• The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a round earth, the two most distant points are closer together than they are on a flat earth.

  Matt Taibbi

  Discovery, Two, History

  "A sense of adventure" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2005.

• Greenspan's eventual explanation for the growing gap between stock prices and actual productivity was that, fortuitously, the laws of nature had changed -- humanity had reached a happy stage of history where bullshit could be used as rocket fuel.

  Matt Taibbi

  Law, Bullshit, Humanity

  Matt Taibbi (2010). “Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America”, p.60, Spiegel & Grau

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