Subash

“I used to think the reason people use selfless-sounding language to describe what are in fact selfish actions is to make others think they’re selfless. It’s a form of advertising. We want to be loved, so we couch our desires in a selfless form. We cloak our selfishness in something that looks more like kindness.”
― Anonymous

“Most of Vietnam’s trucks were broken down in the early 1990s, according to Le Dang Doanh, head of the Central Institute for Economic Management, a Hanoi think tank. Imported from the Soviet Union, built using Soviet technology and production methods, they were notoriously unreliable. To make matters worse, the collapse of the Soviet Union had made spare parts unobtainable. Without trucks, the nation faced a transportation crisis. Out of desperation, the government granted each driver an ownership stake in his truck. “It’s a miracle!” Le Doanh wryly observed. “Suddenly, all the trucks run.”
― John McMillan, Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets

“The primary purpose of political discourse is to gain power and to stay in power. Those who fail”
― Anonymous