Economic Power Quotes

• It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

  Jose Saramago

  Government, Political, Economic

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• The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

  Samuel Gompers

  Reality, Organization, Movement

  "Not Even Compulsory Benevolence Will Do". The American Federationist, Volume 24, 1917.

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• From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.

  Alex Campbell

  Political, Economic, Process

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• Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

  Oliver Tambo

  Black, Discrimination, Oppression

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• A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Good Life

  1897 Following the Equator, ch.32.

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• The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Taken, Democracies Have, Government

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• Political power without economic power is sterile.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Political, Politics

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• My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

  Thomas Jefferson

  God, Patriotic, Heart

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• By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.

  Anita Roddick

  Hands, Practice, Design

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World”, HarperThorsons

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• History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Clouds, Sky, People

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.54, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• All countries have problems with China's economic power.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Country, Problem, Economic

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I use the word power broadly. Even more important than military and economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Military, Compassion, Ideas

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• Now that economic realism has finally arrived in India, the future lies in becoming a strong economic power. Dominance in the world will come only from how well a nation can cope with economic realism and towards that India must work, must find its own place under the sun.

  Mukesh Ambani

  Strong, Lying, India

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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 economic power is necessarily wielded by people.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, People, Economic

  Zedong Mao, Mao Tse-Tung (1965). “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung”, Pergamon

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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 denial of wisdom. Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the nonviolent, the elegant and beautiful.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Beautiful, Technology, Progress

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• We need to be doing lots of other things with the resources that we have. So economic power works just as well as military power, perhaps even better. And speaking of that, our Military needs to be upgraded.

  Benjamin Carson

  Military, Needs, Economic

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• There are historic examples where a soft domination of certain states worked well. For instance the US, who dominated the Western alliance after World War II - with a giant army, an enormous population, and its globally superior economic power. This role is quite different for Germany today.

  Jaroslaw Kaczynski

  War, Army, Example

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny.

  John Adams

  Hands, Political, Citizens

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• Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.

  Jon Meacham

  Military, Economic, National Security

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• There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Government, Long, Political

  Zephyr Teachout (2014). “Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United”, p.301, Harvard University Press

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• Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.

  Robert Ludlum

  Hands, Economic, Greater

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• We have power not just with our voices, but we have economic power in what we do for a living, too.

  Tom Morello

  Voice, Economic

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Political, Fuel

  Source: thinkprogress.org

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• Women need to see ourselves as individuals capable of creating change. That is what political and economic power is all about: having a voice, being able to shape the future. Women's absence from decision-making positions has deprived the country of a necessary perspective.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Country, Voice, Creating

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• The genius of the corporation as a business form, and the reason for its remarkable rise over the last three centuries , was - and is - its capacity to combine the capital, and thus the economic power, of unlimited numbers of people.

  Joel Bakan

  Numbers, People, Three

  Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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