Kierans Quotes & Sayings

The Liberal Party abandoned the principles of reform and social liberalism and has become, instead, just another piece of political machinery in the service of corporatism. — Eric Kierans

Happy he who forgets what cannot be changed. — Anne-Marie O'Connor

Corporations have nothing to do with values, and they know it, and sometimes say it. — Eric Kierans

Our parents surround us with origin stories that create deep grooves in the vinyl records of our lives. — Amy Poehler

Most people know who believes in them. — Johnny Hunt

I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue. — Lord Byron

The corporation is the dominant and dominating institution of our time. Governments identify growth and development with commercial corporations and shower them with subsidies, tax privileges, and appropriate labour legislation and market support to attract a commitment and investment. — Eric Kierans

Love is our greatest achievement. Don't ever forget that. Don't squander it. Seek it. Experience it. Savor it every day that you can, because you never know when a rogue wave might sweep you away. — Julianne MacLean

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking. — Ernest Renan

Capital movements are no longer necessarily related to the production of goods and services. Through the financial markets of the world, capital movements today are overwhelmingly concerned with the capture of and trade in property rights, the ownership of assets that magnify a corporation's wealth, power, and control. It is what John Maynard Keynes described as "a casino world"-wealth without worth. — Eric Kierans

Capital, never concerned with distribution, is now less and less concerned with production. Capital is driving for power, for the control over markets, lands, resources. Capital, in corporate hands, can move anywhere and thus demand and get the utmost in concessions and privileges as well as the freedom to operate in the interest of ever-increasing wealth and assets. — Eric Kierans

People do not realize that the media is paid to get your attention. For a journalist, silence rarely surpasses any word. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Capital in money form has no citizenship. It is fungible, an asset capable of moving from place to place in a nanosecond. — Eric Kierans

DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed ... deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life. — Ambrose Bierce

Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on "day trades" or other speculative swaps was revived in recent years, but has been studiously ignored by all our purveyors of conventional economic wisdom. That is because we have been persuaded, against logic, and moral sense, that the institution that most needs our support these days is not society, nor the human community, but the global corporation. — Eric Kierans

This is the standard procedure for corporate growth these days; one company buys up another on loans that are floated on the basis of future earnings, and the monopoly or oligopoly created in this way produces the necessary funds by squeezing out competition, and passing the costs along to the consumer. The bucket that holds the new wealth is called a corporation. — Eric Kierans

When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up. — Prince William