Economic Quotes - Page 32

• The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century. We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world.

  Peter Drucker

  Rights, Important Events, America

  "Post-Capitalist Society". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1993.

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• Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about "the right to life"...It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed...None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.

  Peter Drucker

  Issues, Groups, Moral

  "The Age of Social Transformation". The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 274, No. 5., November 1994.

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• The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Philosophy, Decision, Social

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.81, Taylor Trade Publications

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• It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Children, Emotional

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• The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some listen and others talk, and even that some people control others in very economic or even violent ways - that kind of hierarchy is what makes us vulnerable to believing in class hierarchy, to believing in racial hierarchy, and so on.

  Gloria Steinem

  Believe, Ideas, Class

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem". Interview with Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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• The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress.

  June Jordan

  Law, Justice, United States

  June Jordan (1992). “Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union”, Pantheon

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• The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Opportunity, Satisfaction In Life, Class

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• a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  People, Insecurity, Poverty

  The Struggle for Human Rights, delivered 28 September 1948, Paris, France

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• Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

  Helen Keller

  Humanity, Poverty, Causes

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.77, American Foundation for the Blind

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• I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

  Helen Keller

  War, Believe, Fruit

  Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.141, NYU Press

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• Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.

  Emma Goldman

  Inferiority, Social, Responsible

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.100, 谷月社

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• Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is more binding, more exacting.

  Emma Goldman

  Agreement, Ordinary, Pact

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.151, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value.

  William J. Clinton

  America, Firsts, Twenties

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• A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Dependence, Nations, Idleness

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• Women's struggle for equality worldwide is about more than equality between men and women. Our struggle is about reversing the trends of social, economic, political, and ecological crisis - a global nervous breakdown! Our struggle is about creating sustainable lives and attainable dreams.

  Bella Abzug

  Change, Dream, Struggle

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• If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.

  Germaine Greer

  Economics, Structure, Collapse

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• Israel's economic and cultural progress is due to three things: the pioneering spirit that inspires the best of our immigrant and Israeli youth, who respond to the challenge of our desolute areas and the ingathering of the exiles; the feeling of Diaspora Jewry that they are partners in the enterprise of Israel's resurgence in the ancient homeland of the Jewish people; and the power of science, and technology which Israel unceasingly, and not without success, tries to enhance.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Technology, Israel, People

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• part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.

  Anna Quindlen

  War, Character, Today

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• Money is economic power.

  Walter Bagehot

  Money, Economic Power

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• war has dug itself into economic systems, where it offers a livelihood to millions ... It has lodged in our souls as a kind of religion, a quick tonic for political malaise and a bracing antidote to the moral torpor of consumerist, market-driven cultures.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  War, Political, Soul

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• Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

  Hannah Arendt

  Class, Expansion, Limits

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 'Murphys law of economic policy': Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.

  Alan Blinder

  Law, Influence, Economics

  "New ball game, same old team" by Faisal Islam, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2004.

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• Coupled with Usury, Unrestricted Competition destroys the small man for the profit of the great and in so doing produces that mass of economically unfree citizens whose very political freedom comes in question because it has no foundation in any economic freedom, that is, any useful proportion of property to support it. Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Men, Support

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• The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes men free.

  Jeffrey H Reiman

  Wisdom, Party, Men

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• That intelligence capability is enormously important to the United States, to our conduct of foreign policy, to defense matters, to economic matters. And I am a strong supporter of it.

  Dick Cheney

  Strong, Nsa, Important

  "Allies spy on allies because a friend today may not be one tomorrow" by Michael Martinez, www.cnn.com. October 31, 2013.

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