“Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.” StatesGovernmentPoliticalCertainResultsMoneyExistencePowerEconomicProductsAuthorityEconomicsIndependentInventionCommodityLegislationSanctions Author:Carl Menger
“To have peace and not war, the drift toward a war economy, as facilitated by the moves and the demands of the sophisticated conservatives, must be stopped; to have peace without slump, the tactics and policies of the practical right must be overcome. The political and economic power of both must be broken. The power of these giants of main drift is both economically and politically anchored; both unions and an independent labor party are needed to struggle effective.” WarMovingPoliticalPartyStruggleEconomyEconomicPolicyBrokenNeededDemandLaborOvercomingIndependentUnionsPracticalsGiantsSophisticatedTacticsEconomic PowerSlumps Author:C. Wright Mills
“The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state created tool for advancing social and economic policy.” NeedsPersonsStatesDesireSocialRightsEconomicPolicyToolsIndependentCorporationsAdvancingEconomic PolicyRegulatorsIndependent Person Book:The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power Source: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
“Further, economic systems ... have never arranged themselves by themselves. It is men who do the ordering according to their attitudes, desires and understanding of things. Changes take place, not independent of man's will, but on account of man's wills. Civilization has progressed by man's interference with material conditions.” MenGivingDesireUnderstandingAttitudeAtheismEconomicConditionsMaterialsCivilizationAccountsImportanceIndependentPositive AtheismPrimariesThings ChangeInterferenceEconomic Systems Author:Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
“The mandate entails a generous synthesis of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. The title requires the expert to be truly independent, keep an open mind, conduct his/her research objectively and without ideological prejudices, listen to all sides of an argument and seek the opinion of all stakeholders. The essence of an independent expert is not merely his/her expertise - which must be considered a given - but the faculty of thinking outside the box, while rigorously respecting the terms of reference laid down in the resolution establishing the mandate, and observing the code of conduct of rapporteurs.” MindPoliticalSocialSidesOpinionRightsEconomicResearchArgumentPrejudiceIndependentTitlesGenerousExpertsOpen MindIdeologicalMandatesSynthesisKeep An Open MindStakeholder Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter of things -- to which the Stoic strictly adheres -- but in looking up to the spirit of things; in absolute contempt of all economic values and political splendor, and in courageous defence of the rights of independent freedom; then Christianity would be nothing but universal cynicism.” IfsArtWould BePoliticalSpiritValuesChristianityVirtueRightsEconomicLettersEssenceUniversalAbsolutesIndependentBotherCourageousContemptCynicismDefenceSplendorStoicEconomic Value Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“America, like Britain before her, is now the great defender of the Status Quo. She has committed herself against revolution and radical change in the underdeveloped world because independent governments would destroy the world economic and political system, which assures the United States its disproportionate share of economic and political power ... America's preeminent wealth depends upon keeping things in the underdeveloped world much as they are, allowing change and modernization to proceed only in a controlled, orderly, and nonthreatening way.” WorldWayStatesGovernmentAmericaPoliticalWealthUnitedUnited StatesShareEconomicRevolutionDependsIndependentCommittedRadicalBritainControlledAllowingStatus QuoPolitical SystemsDefendersOrderlyPolitical PowerRadical ChangeModernization Author:Richard Barnet
“The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W. Murnau's masterpieces, or that you couldn't see so many of Oscar Micheaux's really intriguing race melodramas, made with fierce independent spirit against all odds in '20s and '30s America. That stuff haunted me. They really did bring to life a sense of 20th Century history: cultural history, pop history, gender politics and race politics, socio economic history, all that stuff. It was bracing and instructive.” FirstsMadeFactsAmericaFilmSpiritStuffRaceEconomicCenturyMountainIndependentPopsGenderFierceOddsOscars20th CenturyMasterpieceEaglesIntriguingHitchcockMelodramaAgainst All OddsEconomic History Author:Guy Maddin
“In many inner cities, there are issues of less economic stability, poorer education, community centers being stripped away, arts being removed from the school system leaving many children imbalanced, isolated from their most powerful self... the independent thinker, the creator, the dreamer often leaving children more susceptible to other harmful things out of boredom or feelings of rejection.” ChildrenArtSelfFeelingsSchoolCommunityPowerfulCitiesIssuesEconomicArt IsIndependentLeavingCreatorRejectionBoredomMost PowerfulThinkerStabilityDreamerIsolatedSusceptibleSchool SystemInner CityCommunity CentersEconomic Stability Author:Mya
“One independent expert - actually, the economist who advised John McCain in 2008, so, you know, not somebody that has any predisposition toward our side - but this economist did a study. He said under [Donald] Trump's economic plans, we would lose in America 3 and a half million jobs.” KnowsSaidJobsAmericaSidesLosesHalfMillionsStudyPlansEconomicTrumpIndependentExpertsEconomistMccain Author:Hillary Clinton