Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Freedom without the strength to support it and, if need be, defend it, would be a cruel delusion. And the strength to… — Jamsetji Tata Copy Share Image
Economics, as it is often taught today, portrays us as homo economicus-someone who doesn't vote in presidential elections, doesn't return lost wallets,… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
Angela Davis's legacy as a freedom fighter made her an enemy of the state under the increasingly neoliberal regimes of Nixon, Reagan… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange -… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
As far as male and female are concerned, difference is a biological fact, whereas equality is a political, ethical and social concept.… — Alice S Rossi Copy Share Image
I sat down in 1989 and I made up my mind at that point that I was going to spend the rest… — Joyce Banda Copy Share Image
If we could create the conditions that make racism difficult, or discourage it, then there would be less stress and less need… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
My belief in free competitive economic enterprise does not rest solely or even mainly on arguments of economic efficiency, though, heaven knows,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I have begun drafting a memorandum for the prosecuting authorities, together with all evidence necessary to establish not only the existence of… — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Copy Share Image
In terms of the economics, yes obviously the rise of e-books and how people choose to read books has a big effect… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
We have to remember that literally within months after Castro's taking office the planes from Florida were beginning to bomb Cuba. Within… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, capitalism's tendency… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
I thought that, given the system of rewards central to our economic system, in which profit maximization is valued above all else… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
If there's any country that has the capacity not to control North Korea, but to influence North Korea, it's still China. The… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
The physical and emotional health of an entire generation and the economic health and security of our nation is at stake. This… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I want to use my position of influence to change the laws of the land to the benefit of the women of… — Dalia Grybauskaite Copy Share Image
The state of inequality between individuals and between nations not only still exists; it is increasing. It still happens that side by… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
If the resources of different nations are treated as exclusive properties of these nations as wholes, if international economic relations, instead of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
If we neglect or abandon those who are suffering in poverty ... not only are we depriving ourselves of potential opportunities for… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If democracy is control by the people, as it is supposed to be, it is the right form of government. I believe… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
If greed were not the master of modern man, how could it be that the frenzy of economic activity does not abate… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
From the time I first understood economic principles, I was always concerned also that any system be operated on an efficient basis,… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
Politics are receiving a lot of attention because we have nothing else to interest us. No nation in the history of the… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even… — Roger Mahony Copy Share Image
The U.S. might enjoy overwhelming military advantage, but its relative economic power, which in the long run is almost invariably decisive, is… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
It's all economic. Soda is easier to sell than orange juice because its costs less. Water, some coloring, some fizz, and this… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
The China of the 1970s was a communist dictatorship. The China of the twenty-first century is a one-party state without a firm… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I wish I could write a book that will be read for as long as our civilization lasts. I would value it… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
We must win rulers; political, economic, scientific, artistic personalities. They are the engineers of souls. They mold the souls of men. Winning… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
Worldwide, the twentieth century has seen the rise of extraordinary concentrations of economic and political power - evoking the people as the… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
Not just the jobs building the infrastructure, but you need to have a good highway system. You need to have a good… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I'm… — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
