The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The Lockean assumption that if we put our labor to it then it becomes our own is totally fallacious. We have to… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
I think it is absolutely central to our economic plan as a country not only that we put our own house in… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
Let's take the nine states that have no income tax and compare them with the nine states with the highest income tax… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
For the moment a lot of attention is given to economic concerns, and these problems at hand easily eclipse all others. But… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We have to do commerce differently because the WalMart system of big box chain retail will soon die. This means rebuilding local… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the current pace of progress is not nearly rapid enough, with many rich industrialised countries being slow to make the transition… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint… — David Korten Copy Share Image
We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion,… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
Puerto Rican independence movement wasn't just rooted in some sort of personal intransigence or some passionate Latino temperament. It was rooted in… — Nelson Antonio Denis Copy Share Image
I would wager that my job has helped save our economy from the economic ravages of out-of-control environmental extremism. I view my… — Roy Spencer Copy Share Image
The strategic stimulus to economic development in Schumpeter's analysis is innovation, defined as the commercial or industrial application of something new---a new… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
The American people must make a fundamental decision. Do we continue the 40-year decline of our middle class and the growing gap… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple… — Oskar Schlemmer Copy Share Image
The reason I invest in technology is it's the only work humans do that actually is creative. All other types of economic… — D.A. Wallach Copy Share Image
There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of economic backwardness and even poverty. By and large,… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Thus, the capital owner is not a parasite or a rentier but a worker - a capital worker. A distinction between labor… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
I congratulate NUS for launching a new degree, a bachelor of environmental studies. This is a most timely initiative. One of the… — Tommy Koh Copy Share Image
One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
The American president [George W. Bush] closes his eyes to the economic and human damages that are inflicted on his country and… — Jurgen Trittin Copy Share Image
Today, the top one-tenth of 1% owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90%. The economic game is rigged, and this… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The thing we have to be careful of is that the Internet is a global communications medium, and if one country tips… — John W. Thompson Copy Share Image
One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Cruz named Former Texas Senator Phil Gramm as his economic guru. This guy virtually crashed the U.S. economy. Gramm is largely responsible… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
Because a true sense of purpose is deeply emotional, it serves as a compass to guide us to act in a way… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
With engaging prose, Engelman takes readers on a delightful journey?that both entertains and educates ? of modern civilization and women's central role… — Geeta Rao Gupta Copy Share Image
It is necessary not only to relieve the gravest needs but to go to their roots, proposing measures that will give social,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned… — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
The countries that have risen and separated out as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union are, on the whole,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
As political theorist Michael Parenti points out, historians often overlook Fascism's economic agenda--the partnership between Big Capital and Big Government--in their analysis… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed,… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
We must work our destiny in our own way and present to the world an economic system based on true Islamic concept… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
Serious research and development efforts are required to produce technologies, strategies, organizations, and trained personnel who can go into failed states, work… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image