“The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.” AmericaPoliticalForcePowerfulEconomicStreetsDangerousWallShiningProtestMost PowerfulSpotlightSecretiveOccupy Wall Street Author:Bernie Sanders
“The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of global economic development. It's an acute symptom that is added to other more grave and already well-known ones, such as the continued imbalance between wealth and poverty, the scandal of hunger, the ecological emergency and the problem of unemployment, which has now become general. In this context a strategic re-launching of agriculture appears decisive.” NeedsWellsProblemCausesWealthPowerfulKnownPovertyEconomicLandDevelopmentMessagesModelsCrisisProfoundHungerCurrentsGravesAgricultureUnemploymentWell KnownSymptomsScandalEmergenciesStrategicEcologicalRevisionEconomic DevelopmentImbalanceLaunchingEconomic CrisisWealth And Poverty Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not much longer. Science, as a dominant factor in determining the belief of educated men, has existed for about 300 years; as a source of economic technique, for about 150 years. In this brief period it has proved itself an incredibly powerful revolutionary force. When we consider how recently it has risen to power, we find ourselves forced to believe that we are at the very beginning of its work in transforming human life.” MenWritingYearsBelieveHumansScienceBeliefForcePowerfulHistoryMillionsPowerLearningEconomicSourcePeriodsEconomicsTechniqueFactorsEducatedHuman LifeRevolutionaryPossessedAgricultureDominantTransformingRisenEducated Man Book:The Impact of Science On Society Source: The Impact of Science On Society
“I have not the slightest doubt that the economic measures and the Socialist measures which one will find in countries of Eastern Europe, will become increasingly powerful against the uncoordinated, planless society in which the West is living at present.” CountryPowerfulDoubtEconomicEuropeWestSocialistEasternEastern Europe Author:James Callaghan
“I still believe that, in the long run, the aggregate of the decisions of individual businessmen, exercising individual judgment in a free economy, even if often mistaken, is likely to do less harm than the centralized decisions of a Government; and certainly the harm is likely to be counteracted faster. As I said earlier in this debate, our economic medicine may be painful but it is fast and powerful because it can act freely.” IfsBelieveMayLongSaidStillsGovernmentRunningIndividualDecisionPowerfulEconomyEconomicExerciseJudgmentMedicinePainfulHarmDebateFasterLong RunsMistakenBusinessmanI Still BelieveFree Economy Author:John James Cowperthwaite
“In a democracy the responsibility for the Government's economic policies, which so affect the economy, normally rests with the elected representative of the people: in our case, with the President and the Congress. If these two follow economic policies inimical to the general welfare, they are accountable to the people for their actions on election day. With Federal Reserve independence, however, a body of men exist who control one of the most powerful levers moving the economy and who are responsible to no one.” PeopleIfsMenTwoBodyGovernmentActionMovingPoliticsPresidentPowerfulResponsibilityCasesEconomyDemocracyEconomicPolicyResponsibleElectionIndependenceCongressWelfareLiberalismMost PowerfulRepresentativesReservesFederal ReserveElection DayEconomic PolicyLeversGeneral Welfare Author:Wright Patman
“Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the matter of simple justice is a counterbalancing factor.” MatterPoliticalSidesJusticeSimplePowerfulEconomicMilitaryEconomicsFavorsFactors Author:Jimmy Carter
“The Olympics are too powerful. I hate sports - they generate so much nationalism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, economic exploitation, displacement of communities to build worthless bankrupt stadiums.” HateSportsCommunityPowerfulEconomicRacismI HateNationalismSexismExploitationOlympicsWorthlessStadiumsHomophobiaDisplacement Author:Terre Thaemlitz
“In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share.” HumanityPowerfulCommonShareEconomicDisasterRecoveryMidstUpheavalCommon HumanityEconomic Recovery Author:Barack Obama
“I dream of India becoming a great economic superpower.” InspirationalDreamPowerfulEconomicBecomingIndiaSuperpower Author:Dhirubhai Ambani
“A very high fraction of America's economic problems come not from our difficulties with education or globalization or competition with the Chinese or whatever. But they come from the fact that a small number of wealthy and powerful people who run dangerous and/or inefficient companies are able, through the use of money in the political process, to prevent the government from regulating them properly.” PeopleFactsUseProblemGovernmentRunningAbleAmericaPoliticalProcessPowerfulNumbersCompanyEconomicDangerousDifficultyCompetitionChineseWealthyGlobalizationFractionsSmall NumbersEconomic Problems Author:Charles Ferguson
“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
“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
“But a machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as the Solar System - and would be unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate.” EnoughBigsWould BeEnergyPowerfulEconomicMachinesClimateUnlikelyParticlesSolar SystemAccelerateUnificationEconomic Climate Book:A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes Source: A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
“The cash register did more for human morality than the Congregational Church. It was a really powerful phenomenon to make an economic system work better, just as, in reverse, a system that can be easily defrauded ruins a civilization. A system that's very hard to defraud, like a cash register, helped the economic performance of a civilization by reducing vice, but very few people within economics talk about it in those terms.” PeopleHumansHardTermChurchPowerfulEconomicMoralityCivilizationEconomicsPerformancesVicesRuinsPhenomenonCashReverseReducingRegisterEconomic SystemsReally Powerful Author:Charlie Munger
“Anybody who imagines that an election can be won under these circumstances by banging on about William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright is ... to put it mildly ... severely under-estimating the electoral importance of pocketbook issues. We conservatives are sending a powerful, inadvertent message with this negative campaign against Barack Obama's associations and former associations: that we lack a positive agenda of our own and that we don't care about the economic issues that are worrying American voters.” CarePowerfulWorryIssuesImagineEconomicCircumstancesMessagesNegativeImportanceElectionDon't CareCampaignsFormerBarackAgendasVotersAssociationImagine ThatBangingEconomic IssuesAmerican VotersPocketbooksJeremiahEstimating Author:David Frum
“Wall Street is perhaps the most powerful economic and political force in this country. You have companies like Goldman Sachs, who just recently paid a settlement fine with the federal government for $5 billion for defrauding investors.” CountryGovernmentPoliticalForcePowerfulCompanyEconomicStreetsWallFinePaidBillionsMost PowerfulInvestorsFederal GovernmentSettlementGoldman Sachs Author:Bernie Sanders
“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
“People who don't have as much power as they would like often begin by attributing their difficulties to the environment - competitors, bosses, economic circumstances, and so forth. But in reality people are customarily their own biggest impediment to being as powerful as they would like.” PeopleRealityPowerfulEnvironmentEconomicCircumstancesDifficultyBossCompetitorsImpediments Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“I think it`s a message of economic nationalism. It`s obviously one that has bubbled up before in certain pockets, but it`s never been the sort of powerful phenomenon that it is today.” ThinkingTodayCertainPowerfulEconomicMessagesPocketsNationalismPhenomenon Author:Ben Domenech
“Turns out, people's brains are not nearly as powerful a motivator as our hearts. Facts, data, and economic models don't move people to courageous action the way that powerful stories can.” PeopleWayHeartFactsStoriesActionMovingTurnsPowerfulBrainEconomicModelsDataCourageousEconomic Models Author:Annie Leonard