“We need more than new policies. We need a new worldview, and a new bottom line. We need to replace economic values as our ordering principle, with humanitarian values as our ordering principle.” NeedsValuesLinesPrinciplesEconomicPolicyBottomHumanitarianBottom LineWorldviewEconomic Value Author:Marianne Williamson
“A triumphalist corporate capitalism, free at last of the specter of Communism, has mobilized its economic power to relentlessly marginalize all nonmarket values; to subordinate every aspect of American life to corporate "efficiency" and the bottom line; to demonize not only government but the very idea of public service and public goods.” IdeasGovernmentLastsValuesLinesEconomicCapitalismAspectBottomCommunismCorporateGoodsEfficiencyBottom LinePublic ServiceSubordinatesAmerican LifeEconomic Power Author:Ellen Willis
“We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.” LoveNeedsValuesChangeLinesMoneyPrinciplesSocietyEconomicBottomHumanitarianBottom LineNeed A ChangeLove Of Money Author:Marianne Williamson
“The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.” PeopleReasonPoorPayEconomicBottomTrappedLadders Author:Elizabeth Warren
“Today, the top one-tenth of 1% owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90%. The economic game is rigged, and this level of inequality is unsustainable. We need an economy that works for all, not just the powerful.” NeedsTodayGamesWealthLevelsPowerfulEconomyEconomicBottomInequalityRigged Author:Bernie Sanders
“The problem of living is at bottom an economic one. And this alone is bad enough, even in a period of so-called "normalcy." But living has been considerably complicated of late in various ways - by war, by questions of personal liberty, and by "menaces" of one kind or another.” WayKindHas BeensWarEnoughProblemLibertyEconomicPeriodsLateBottomVariousComplicatedMenaceNormalcyPersonal Liberty Author:Benton MacKaye
“Libertarianism is neither of the left nor of the right. It is unique. It is sui generis. It is apart from left and right. The left right political spectrum simply has no room for libertarianism. Think of an equilateral triangle, with libertarianism at one corner, the left at a second corner and the right at the third corner. We are equally distant from both of those misbegotten political economic philosophies. No, better yet, think in terms of an isosceles triangle, with us at the top and the two of them at the bottom, indicating they have more in common with each other than with us.” ThinkingTwoPhilosophyPoliticalLeftTermRoomsCommonEconomicUniqueThirdsBottomCornersLibertarianismSpectrumTrianglesLeft And RightPolitical Spectrum Author:Walter Block
“We need a top-to-bottom review of every economic development and assistance program we have to ensure that they encourage everyone to strive instead of settle, because there is dignity in all work.” NeedsEconomicDevelopmentProgramDignityStriveBottomSettlingReviewsAssistanceEconomic Development Author:Carly Fiorina
“Any insistence on equal pay is crucial and any redefinition of work to include caregiving work so that it also has an economic value, at least at replacement level, that's crucial. So change does come from the bottom up, and it will come from girls and women and men who understand that for us all to be human beings instead of being grouped by gender is good for them, too.” MenHumansDoeValuesGirlHuman BeingsLevelsPayEconomicEqualMen And WomenBottomGenderCrucialReplacementsInsistenceEqual PayCaregivingEconomic Value Author:Gloria Steinem
“This is a very important issue that the corporate media chooses not to talk about a whole lot, that we have an economic system which is rigged, which means that at the same time as the middle class of this country is disappearing, almost all of the new income and wealth in America is going to the top 1 percent. You have the top one-tenth of 1 percent owning almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent - 58 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent.” MeanImportantCountryWholeAmericaWealthClassIssuesEconomicMiddleMediaPercentBottomDisappearIncomeCorporateMiddle ClassEconomic SystemsImportant IssuesRigged Author:Bernie Sanders