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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We should know that the American administration is very much involved with the Egyptian army. And when you talk about the Egyptian… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Socialism to me is establishing social control of power in society, and where that differs from liberalism for example which aims at… — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
We’ve been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
In life, some people just know that they have the power of their money. They can sign checks, contracts, and things like… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Germany's potential makes up about 20% of the EU's overall economic power, including Great Britain. The German army is by no means… — Jaroslaw Kaczynski Copy Share Image
There are reports that Russia is actually working with North Korea to encourage “collaboration and cooperation” between the two countries. Yeah, they… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
There are historic examples where a soft domination of certain states worked well. For instance the US, who dominated the Western alliance… — Jaroslaw Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Now that economic realism has finally arrived in India, the future lies in becoming a strong economic power. Dominance in the world… — Mukesh Ambani Copy Share Image
The political objective of universal capitalism is maximum individual autonomy, the separation of political power wielded by the holders of public office… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
An exploration of the challenges Korea faces in transforming its economy from a government-directed, low-cost producer to an innovative world economic power… — Lewis M. Branscomb Copy Share Image
Military power tends to be a function of economic power, and the British Navy was the essential capability for establishing the imperial… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
New Zealand's nuclear free movement is a broad-based and popular movement. Our nuclear free status is a challenge to much that is… — David Lange 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
We in the West have arranged our institutions to prevent the concentration of political power. … But we have failed utterly to… — Matthew Crawford Copy Share Image
There are huge political problems in Germany, but German economic power is something which was bound to happen. The way out of… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
All countries have problems with China's economic power. — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image