Economic Power Quotes

50 quotes by 48 authors

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… — Noam Chomsky
Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a… — E F Schumacher
Britain needs a real push. It needs nationalism. The sort of spirit that comes during a war. It needs people really to want to see… — Ratan Tata
The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and… — Mao Zedong
Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of power.… — Milton Friedman
The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice… — Pope Francis
Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating… — David Korten
When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental rule of happy… — P.J. O'Rourke
It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power. — Michael Pare
For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth is not wrong.… — Gary Snyder
So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power. — Frederick Jackson Turner
If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's elected in November next year… — Mark Steyn
Our society will always remain an unstable and explosiveÂ compound as long asÂ political power is vested in the masses and economic power in the… — Irving Fisher
According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights. — Michel Chossudovsky
The pendulum of economic power might well begin to shift from capital back to labor. — Stephen S. Roach
Weâ€™ve been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all, to prefer… — Seth Godin
The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power. — Charles A. Reich
By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our… — Jesmyn Ward
The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily. — Frank Gaffney

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