Advancement Quote by Amitav Ghosh

“[...] in a predatory capitalist economy, state intervention would be an absolute necessity to preserve human existence and to prevent the destruction of the…

— Noam Chomsky

“He did not foresee that in a predatory capitalist economy, state intervention would be an absolute necessity to preserve human existence and to prevent…

— Noam Chomsky

“the military has become a substitute welfare state for a large swath of small-town America. In a sense, the military—despite its reputation for political…

— Rosa Brooks

“It was only after the Second World War that the US – with its industrial supremacy now unchallenged – liberalized its trade and started…

— Ha-Joon Chang

“That the state might exceed its remit and damage the market by distorting its operations was not taken very seriously in these years.”

— Tony Judt

“personally heard that wars are needed to create business growth and economy.”

— Lee Vickers

“The National Endowment for Democracy, an agency created by the Reagan administration in 1983 to promote political action and psychological warfare against states not…

— William Blum

“A nation may be moved by its statesmen and defined by its military but it's usually remembered for its artists.”

— John Steinbeck

“There are few problems in the world that economic prosperity cannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierce attack. The…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“Why does it take a war to produce jobs; [why does it take a war to produce] the resources to get an economy moving?”

— Ehsan Masood

“The dialectical movement of economics, politics, and military power is folding and swirling like weather. Politics is being reshaped by military failure. Military failure…

— Stan Goff

Normal military trade is undoubtedly part of the normal State-to-State relations.

— Li Peng