The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce. — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo. — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence. — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to… — Frank Gaffney Copy Share Image
By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
We have power not just with our voices, but we have economic power in what we do for a living, too. — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or… — Dwight Macdonald Copy Share Image
Britain needs a real push. It needs nationalism. The sort of spirit that comes during a war. It needs people really to… — Ratan Tata Copy Share Image
Simply put, no society can truly flourish if it stifles the dreams and productivity of half its population. Happily, I see evidence… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
We've got to be prepared to stop these guys if they ever try to use their economic power once again, to hurt… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman,… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Women need to see ourselves as individuals capable of creating change. That is what political and economic power is all about: having… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
Science that abdicates its cultural values risks being perceived as an extension of technology, an instrument in the hands of political or… — Nicola Cabibbo Copy Share Image
There could be an independent labor-based party, which might over time become an important force the way the Labor Party did in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Communism is an aspiration, an aspiration is an ideal, a dream, a longing of something that would be perfect, but hard to… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
We live in a world in which celebrity recognition, media access, and power translate very quickly into political power and indeed economic… — Alexander Stille Copy Share Image
There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population… — Bernard Arnault Copy Share Image
The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
A market is not politically neutral; its existence creates economic power which one actor can use against another. — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
Our work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity to shape a global balance of power that favors… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The foremost challenge is that of the knowledge revolution. Economic power will depend on creativity and innovation. Creation of wealth will move… — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Copy Share Image
There's no easy way to say this, so I'll just say it: We're no longer No. 1. Today, we're No. 2. Yes,… — Stephen F. Hayes Copy Share Image
History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass,… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power… — Alex Campbell Copy Share Image
Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress:… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P.… — George Packer Copy Share Image
A triumphalist corporate capitalism, free at last of the specter of Communism, has mobilized its economic power to relentlessly marginalize all nonmarket… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it… — David Korten Copy Share Image