“When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more people, then the question of the origin of the war is of no real economic or political significance.” PeopleTwoWarRealHandsPoliticalGroupsEconomicSakeSignificanceOpposingRobbers Author:Vladimir Lenin
“A society which is clamouring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice.” GivingPhilosophyChoicesGoneGenerationsGroupsEconomicConditionsBearsFilledSalvationChosenBrandsVarietyNew Generation Book:Coming of Age in Samoa Source: Coming of Age in Samoa
“Using some economic issues to make one group of people, regardless of race or religion, the scapegoat for all the problems of the country is just the stupidest, and yet, the most creative propaganda scheme that you can come up with.” PeopleCountryProblemRaceCreativeIssuesGroupsEconomicCome UpPropagandaSchemesScapegoatStupidestEconomic Issues Author:Immortal Technique
“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.” ValuesMoralIssuesEnvironmentGroupsEconomicAbsolutesOppressedRight To Life Author:Peter Drucker
“People in the political world have every incentive to say things that lead voters away from a clear economic understanding of issues. What has happened more and more is that organized groups have more and more reasons to say things that don't make any economic sense.” PeopleWorldReasonPoliticalUnderstandingIssuesClearHappenedGroupsEconomicOrganizedVotersIncentives Author:Thomas Sowell
“I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.” HomeCommunityFailingGroupsEconomicMiddleCoupleTravelMeetingsAffairNineHotelMiddle AgesGreat LoveLove AffairMiddle AgedBrussels Author:Kenneth Tynan
“Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the freeplay of economic forces, unified social groups become the transmitters of culture.” CountryGovernmentAmericaCultureForceSocialNaturalStruggleEnvironmentGroupsEconomicWeakWideUnifiedNatural EnvironmentSocial GroupsWeak Government Author:Johan Huizinga
“Let's take the nine states that have no income tax and compare them with the nine states with the highest income tax rates in the nation. If you look at the economic metrics over the last decade for both groups, the zero-income-tax-rate states outperform the highest-income-tax-rate states by a fairly sizable amount.” IfsLooksStatesLastsNationsGroupsEconomicAmountTaxesHighestRateDecadesNineIncomeCompareZeroIncome TaxMetrics Author:Arthur Laffer
“We can only live the changes we wish to see: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create. We must break the obsolete social and economic systems that divide the world between the over-privileged and the under-privileged. Each of us, whether government leader or protester, business executive or worker, professor or student, share a common guilt.” ThinkingWorldWayGovernmentDesireHumanityWishSocialCommonLeaderBreakGroupsShareEconomicStudentsModelsGuiltEnvironmentalWorkersExecutivesDividesProfessorsPrivilegedStewardshipObsoleteEconomic Systems Author:Ivan Illich
“It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth or learning or inheritance or economic power, to retain any mandate, any permanent authority to arrogate to itself the political control of American public life.” PeopleReasonPoliticalPoliticsWealthGroupsEconomicPoliticianAuthorityPermanentLengthCynicalInheritancePublic LifeMandatesEconomic Power Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.” PeoplePoliticalGroupsEconomicStreetsWallNewsCodeThroatGood NewsCountrysideExclusionZips Author:Jim Hightower
“I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood. I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning.” DifferentCountryGrowsCitiesGrowing UpGroupsEconomicGrewTypeLuckyGrew UpNeighborhoodDiverseEthnic GroupsDifferent Types Of MusicEconomic Status Author:Mike Posner
“Our country today is at a cross-point of several crises that were triggered by three groups of causes: the effects of the 2008 world crisis, the external political and economic pressure, and the internal problems and constraints that have built up in our economy” WorldCountryProblemTodayPoliticalThreeCausesEconomyGroupsEconomicEffectsBuiltCrossesPressureCrisisOur CountryInternalsConstraints Author:Dmitry Medvedev
“In 1988, when democracy was restored, the military establishment was still very powerful. The extremist groups were still there. And when the aid and assistance to Pakistan was cut, we had to adopt harsh economic policies. So in a way, it showed that democracy doesn't pay, and the military was able to reassert itself.” WayStillsAblePowerfulPayDemocracyCuttingGroupsEconomicMilitaryPolicyAidsEstablishmentHarshAssistancePakistanVery PowerfulExtremistEconomic PolicyExtremist Groups Author:Benazir Bhutto
“Things economic and social move by their own momentum and the ensuing situations compel individuals and groups to behave in certain ways whatever they may wish to do-not indeed by destroying their freedom of choice but by shaping the choosing mentalities and by narrowing the list of possibilities from which to choose.” WayMayMovingCertainChoicesIndividualWishSocialSituationGroupsEconomicPossibilityListsBehaveDestroyingMentalityMomentumFreedom Of Choice Author:Joseph A. Schumpeter
“One intriguing subplot of the economic crisis is the failure of most economists to predict it. Here we have the most spectacular economic and financial crisis in decades - possibly since the Great Depression - and the one group that spends most of its waking hours analyzing the economy basically missed it.” HoursEconomyGroupsEconomicCrisisFinancialDecadesWakingEconomistSpectacularIntriguingGreat DepressionAnalyzingFinancial CrisisEconomic CrisisSubplots Author:Robert J. Samuelson
“The rules in this new 'post-partisan' era are pretty simple: If the Democratic Party wants it, it's 'stimulus.' If the Republican Party opposes it, it's 'politics' - as in headlines like this: 'Obama Urges GOP To Keep Politics To A Minimum On Stimulus.' These are serious times: As the president says, it's the worst economic crisis since the Thirties. So politicians need to put politics behind them and immediately lavish $4.19 billion on his community-organizing pals at the highly inventive 'voter registration' group ACORN for 'neighborhood stabilization activities.” IfsWantNeedsPresidentCommunitySimplePartyBehindsGroupsEconomicWorstSeriousPoliticianRepublicanActivityCrisisDemocraticBillionsErasPostsNeighborhoodUrgesVotersMinimumRepublican PartyDemocratic PartyStimulusHeadlinesPartisansGopPalsEconomic CrisisAcornsRegistrationCommunity OrganizingVoter Registration Author:Mark Steyn
“When Obama's economic advisers - a greater group of schlemiels would be hard to find - warn that failure to raise the limit will trigger default and horrific consequences for the global economy, Republicans should reply that if this is so, tell it to your president and get him to approve the spending cuts along with the debt-limit increase.” IfsShouldHardWould BePresidentEconomyGreaterCuttingGroupsEconomicRepublicanLimitsConsequenceIncreaseRaisesDebtSpendingTriggersDefaultGlobal EconomyHorrificAdviserSpending Cuts Author:Dick Morris
“Historically speaking, religious and conservative groups always wanted the control over the private sphere that impacts women most, as reflected by family law and women's access to resources and mobility. And often secular groups traded this for economic incentives and trade.” WantedLawReligiousGroupsEconomicResourcesTradeImpactConservativeAccessSpheresSecularIncentivesMobilityFamily Law Author:Zainab Salbi
“If a legislator is safe from competition, or if he represents groups with the same economic and political beliefs, he does not have to change his ideas or respond to the needs of the broader population. He can rest content with a mediocre, absentee performance knowing he will be returned to office. And as he is returned year after year the seniority system gives him immense control over people from other parts of the country whose views he need not heed at all.” PeopleIfsNeedsGivingYearsDoeIdeasCountryPoliticalBeliefViewsKnowingGroupsEconomicSafeOfficePerformancesCompetitionPopulationImmenseMediocreHeedLegislatorsPolitical BeliefsSeniority Book:Decisions for a Decade: Policies and Programs for the 1970s Source: Decisions for a Decade: Policies and Programs for the 1970s