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Economic Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
- Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to…
- The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges the…
- Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York…
- Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if…
- You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.
- Policy is largely set by economic elites and organized groups representing business interests with little concern for public attitudes or public safety, as long as…
- Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or how many ways…
- The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political…
- There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable…
- In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in 1977. And that…
- Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.
- The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.
- If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.
- The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
- A large majority of Americans believe that the U.N., not the U.S., should take the lead in working with Iraqis to transfer authentic sovereignty as…
- Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.
- The U.S. has strategic and economic interests in Southeast Asia that must be secured. Holding Indochina is essential to securing these interests. Therefore, we must…
- The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system -…
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- The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be… — David Attenborough
- Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and… — David Attenborough
- We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated… — Ibrahim Babangida
- One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare,… — Michelle Bachelet
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet
- My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation. — Michelle Bachelet
- I don't want the United States to be in a global economy where our economic future is bound to that of Zimbabwe.… — Michele Bachmann
- It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his… — Russell Baker
- Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. — Frederic Bastiat