The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Capitalism’s biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
“When I heard Zizek’s statement, I have to admit that I reacted strongly against it. For the first twenty-five years of my… — Vaddhaka Linn Copy Share Image
Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past. — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement. — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader. — P. Chidambaram Copy Share Image
I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for… — Edward Heath Copy Share Image
There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in… — Susan George Copy Share Image
To be effective in tackling poverty wages, a living wage has to be mandatory and basic trade union rights should be restored… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational… — Leon Jouhaux Copy Share Image
From a genuine living wage to a mass housebuilding programme and strong workers' and trade unions rights preventing a race to the… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
“Trade unions resisted computerization in banks till the first decade of this millennium as they feared the machines would replace them and… — Tamal Bandopadhyaya Copy Share Image
No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Martin Neimöller, the German theologian, summarized the slippery march of evil in his often-quoted statement: First they came for the Socialists, and… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
New Labour has systematically alienated section after section of our natural supporters - teachers, health workers, students, pensioners, public service workers, trade… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
If Labour ends up on the scrapheap of history, it will do so because of its own foolishness and self-inflicted wounds. What… — Betty Boothroyd Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish the trade unionists who work in the mass media, those who are writers and broadcasters and secretaries and printers… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
We have a series of regular meetings with South African business. Big business. Black business. Agriculture. As well, of course, with the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
“Communism claimed to represent the working class, but banned trade unions, collective bargaining, and the right to strike. Walesa chose to attach… — Alexandre Havard Copy Share Image
Public discourse degenerated. There's no longer a place for intelligent debate at universities, where people just work for degrees and careers. My… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
“Believing that, in alliance with the proletariat, they have singled out in capitalism the common enemy, the young abandon their own ground,… — Carla Lonzi Copy Share Image
“In her novel In Times of Siege, Githa Hariharan quotes a German Pastor, Reverend Martin Niemöller, who was persecuted by the Nazis:… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
“They call themselves conservatives but that’s not it, either. They don’t want to conserve what we now have. They’d rather take the… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“Imagine, for a moment, if his administration had been willing to invoke its newly minted democratic mandate to build the new economy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“In his pocket he kept a poem written by Martin Niemöller, who had lived in Nazi Germany. First they came for the… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
“There was another reason why the dollar's hegemony grew: the intentional impoverishment of America's working class. A cynic will tell you quite… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
“Economic insatiability is as old as money itself, but it has been greatly exacerbated by the institutions of capitalism. Today, it is… — Edward Skidelsky Robert Skidelsky Copy Share Image
“American DEWAR FAMILY Cameron Dewar Ursula “Beep” Dewar, his sister Woody Dewar, his father Bella Dewar, his mother PESHKOV-JAKES FAMILY George Jakes… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I… — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be… — Leon Jouhaux Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press,… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
The Left forces have a strong and growing presence in universities, youth organizations, and among trade unions and farmer organizations... This strength… — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
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