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“So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.”

Thinking Might Economic Conditions Revolution Concerned Claims American Revolution

Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer

Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer

“Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of crime. Endless statistics have been gathered on this subject which seem to show conclusively that property crimes are largely the result of the unequal distribution of wealth. But crime of any class cannot be safely ascribed to a single cause. Life is too complex, heredity is too variant and imperfect, too many separate things contribute to human behavior, to make it possible to trace all actions to a single cause.”

“The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.”

“Yet if anyone cares to read over the now crumbling minutes giving an account of the meetings at which the Italian Fasci di Combattimento were founded, he will find not a doctrine but a series of pointers... It may be objected that this program implies a return to the guilds (corporazioni). No matter!... I therefore hope this assembly will accept the economic claims advanced by national syndicalism.”

Ifs Giving May Matter Care Accepting Economic Minutes Return Program Economics Accounts Claims Meetings Series Doctrine Italian Fascism Assembly Crumbling Guilds Pointers

Author:Benito Mussolini

“Demonstrators for a government takeover of medicine have a right to discuss their demands, but no right to enact these demands.”

Government Action Father Rights Economic Demand Claims Medicine Goods Founding Our Founding Fathers Takeovers Government Takeover

Author:Ilana Mercer

“Political monopoly and economic monopoly are two sides of the same coin, two heads of the same monster. Despite all the claims to the contrary, the essential ideology of Neo-Conservatism is to preserve the status quo, with all of its injustices. Its public relations experts call for "freedom and democracy" without a framework of higher values. They fail to comprehend the need for a paradigm of justice and therefore are blind to what concerns most of the people in the world. This failure is the taproot of terrorism.”

“Money is not a part of the visible sector of the economy; people do not consume money. Money is not a physical factor of production, but rather a yardstick for measuring economic input, economic outtake and the relative values of the real goods and services of the economic world. Money provides a method of measuring obligations, rights, powers and privileges. It provides a means whereby certain individuals can accumulate claims against others, or against the economy as a whole, or against many economies.”

Source: Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

“There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone trying to sell you that line is no better than a three-card-trick man. One thing becoming more clear every day is that freedom and progress go hand in hand. Throughout the developing world, people are rejecting socialism because they see that it doesn't empower people, it impoverishes them.”

“A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.”

Government Liberty Economic Position Materials Mets Economics Claims Equality Free Government Totalitarian Regimes Economic Equality Totalitarian Government

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“State control is important for the people who have always been excluded from the claims of social and economic development.”

People Important States Social Economic Development Claims Excluded Economic Development

Author:Evo Morales

“In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better.”

Fighting Force Nations Cases Economic Claims Handle Settling Unjust

Author:Rufus Jones