“Germans longed to be near shit, but not in it. This, as it turns out, is an excellent description of their role in the current financial crisis.”

“There are no atheists in foxholes or ideologues in a financial crisis. Ben Bernanke”

“While the financial crisis destroyed careers and reputations, and left many more bruised and battered, it also left the survivors with a genuine sense of invulnerability at having made it back from the brink. Still missing in the current environment is a genuine sense of humility.”

“Be financially independent, be intellectually attractive, be spiritually excellent, be emotionally exclusive.”

“Contemporaneous with the financial crisis we have an ecological crisis and a health crisis. They are intimately interlinked. We cannot convert much more of the earth into money, or much more of our health into money, before the basis of life itself is threatened.”

“This financial crisis in Europe would have left Greece in Ruins, but it’s been that way for 2,000 years.”