“Surrendering to state or private financing is bullshit.”

—  José Baroja

Source: Revista Momento ahora o nunca, n°139 (2019)

Last update July 24, 2025. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Surrendering to state or private financing is bullshit." by José Baroja?
José Baroja photo
José Baroja 143
Chilean author and editor 1983

Related quotes

José Baroja photo

“Surrendering to state or private financing is bullshit.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Revista Momento ahora o nunca, n°139 (2019)

Ayn Rand photo

“The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

Hugo Chávez photo

“Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can’t be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can’t be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights.”

Hugo Chávez (1954–2013) 48th President of Venezuela

Hugo Chávez during his closing speech at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. January 31, 2005. http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1486
2005

Benjamin Graham photo

“The State can always afford to finance what its citizens can soundly produce.”

Benjamin Graham (1894–1976) American investor

Part I, Chapter III, The Problem of Conserving Surplus, p. 43 (italics as per text)
Storage and Stability (1937)

Gore Vidal photo

“Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is.”

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer

Quoted in Gert Jonkers, "Gore Vidal, the Fantastic Man," http://www.buttmagazine.com/?p=457 Butt, No. 20 (7 April 2007)
2000s
Context: Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate or feed the people; it cannot do anything but kill the people. No State like that do we want prying into our private lives.

Cory Booker photo

“Cynicism about America’s current state of affairs is ultimately a form of surrender.”

Cory Booker (1969) 35th Class 2 senator for New Jersey in U.S. Congress

In [Booker, Cory, United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good, https://books.google.com/books?id=iFekDQAAQBAJ, 2017, Random House Publishing Group, 978-1-101-96518-4], as quoted in [Yanklowitz, Rabbi Shmuly, Standing Together In the Era of National Division: Review of United by Cory Booker, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-shmuly-yanklowitz/standing-together-in-the-_b_9359900.html, 21 August 2018, The Huffington Post, March 3, 2016]
2016

Harlan F. Stone photo

“The amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.”

Harlan F. Stone (1872–1946) United States federal judge

United States v. Darby Lumber Company, 312 U.S. 100, 124 (1941).

Paulo Coelho photo
Naomi Klein photo

“When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are empty.”

Naomi Klein (1970) Canadian author and activist

Source: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007)

Richard Durbin photo

“If you want to get to the heart of this, it's the way we finance our campaigns for the United States Senate and the House of Representatives.”

Richard Durbin (1944) U.S. senior senator from Illinois

Interview by Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal, PBS, May 8, 2009. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05082009/transcript1.html

Related topics