Economic Power Quotes
50 quotes by 48 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.
— Michael Pare
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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
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So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.
— Frederick Jackson Turner
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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
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Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic power in the…
— Irving Fisher
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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
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The pendulum of economic power might well begin to shift from capital back to labor.
— Stephen S. Roach
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We’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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Economic Power Quotes
48 authors contributed a total of 50 Economic Power Quotes, led by these top contributors: