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When young we have a vivid sense of basic values like trust and warm-heartedness, which we tend to neglect in today's competitive world as we… — Dalai Lama
The same individuals who are doing primary research in the role of humans on the climate system are then permitted to lead the [IPCC] assessment!… — Unknown Author
Those of us in positions of responsibility, we'll need to be less concerned with the judgment of special interests and well-connected donors, and more concerned… — Barack Obama
In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's… — William McDonough
The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing… — Al Gore
If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly… — Nikola Tesla
We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today. — Sandra Day O'Connor
Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important… — Bill Moyers
If the people are to be the final tribunal then they must vote for what is right rather than according to their own selfish interests,… — Henry Latham Doherty
When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people… — Henry F. Ashurst
[T]he delegation of the government, in [a republic], to a small number of citizens elected by the rest . . . [is] to refine and… — James Madison
Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the… — Abraham Lincoln
No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, an… — Abraham Lincoln
Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation… — Abraham Lincoln
By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts,… — Abraham Lincoln
Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show. — Noam Chomsky
Capital, never concerned with distribution, is now less and less concerned with production. Capital is driving for power, for the control over markets, lands, resources.… — Eric Kierans
Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly in the bank. They could… — John Kenneth Galbraith
A rentier is an investor whose relationship to a company or enterprise is strictly limited to the ownership of financial wealth (such as stocks or… — Unknown Author
A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized… — John Ralston Saul
Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of… — Robert Heilbroner
Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done;… — John Kenneth Galbraith
In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before… — Pope Francis
There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to evaluate new proposals… — Milton Friedman
How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live. For this we… — James Hillman

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