“I am convinced that the public, large majority of the Greek people, realize that policies pursued in the past and the market practices have to be changed, in order to improve the prospects of the Greek economy. So there is, I think, strong public support despite the increases in social tensions.” PeopleThinkingPastOrderStrongSocialRealizingPracticeSupportEconomyPolicyChangedIncreaseMajorityConvincedDespiteGreekTensionPursuedProspects Author:Lucas Papademos
“Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.” FirstsBigsPovertyTechnologyEconomyCrimeChangedStrongerIndependenceImpactDollarsJamaicaBig Impact Author:Damian Marley
“What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.” YearsTodaySimpleEconomyChangedEthicsYears AgoIncludingMarket EconomySociety TodayEconomy Today Author:Robert Fripp
“I hate to make predictions, but I think the economy is going to be permanently changed for the worse. I think our foreign policy is going to lead to changes that will be definitely for the worse, particularly if we drift into a nuclear Iran, which I gather that's what the administration is doing.” IfsThinkingHateEconomyPolicyChangedI HateNuclearAdministrationIranForeign PolicyPredictionsNuclear Iran Author:Thomas Sowell
“Simply put, we have to be smart about how we use our power. Not because we have less of it indeed, the might of our military, the size of our economy, the influence of our diplomacy, and the creative energy of our people remain unrivaled. No, it's because as the world has changed, so too have the levers of power that can most effectively shape international affairs.” PeopleWorldUseMightEnergyEconomyCreativeInfluenceMilitaryChangedShapesSmartAffairInternationalSizeDiplomacyBeing SmartLeversCreative EnergyInternational Affairs Author:Hillary Clinton
“Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows from what has been said that there have been movements to bring about a changed distribution of power to do - and power to think and to express thought is a power to do- so that there would be a more balanced, a more equal, even, and equitable system of human liberties.” ThinkingHumansHas BeensSaidWisdomWould BePoliticsLibertyEconomyMovementChangedEqualInstitutionsLiberationPreservesLiberalismBalancedDistributionEquitableDistribution Of Power Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953 Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953
“We are free today substantially, but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility because wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a few. A Republic cannot stand upon bayonets, and when the day comes when the wealth of the nation will be in the hands of a few, then we must rely upon the wisdom of the best elements in the country to readjust the laws of the nations to the changed conditions.” CountryWisdomHandsTodayLawPoliticsNationsWealthEconomyConditionsChangedElementsRelyLiberalismRepublicImpossibilityRely UponBayonetsConcentration Of Wealth Author:James Madison
“So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now changed their system to state-socialism. Small elites run them, and they aren't sharing societies. They aren't even socialist. The power of the state has been merged with business property and you have the greatest concentration of power that's possible.” WorldHas BeensWarStatesRunningPoliticsNationsProcessEconomyDemocracyChangedPropertySocialismWar Of The WorldsLiberalismConcentrationElitesSocialistSecond World War Author:Daniel Patrick Moynihan
“I think the time has changed. Because of 9/11, because of the economy, it is more and more now. There is a darker awareness, although it would seem to reason that because life is so much tougher now people would seek entertainment to just totally escape.” PeopleThinkingReasonSeemsLife IsEconomyAwarenessChangedEntertainmentTimes Have Changed Author:Lauren Shuler Donner
“Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction of humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it's not the laws of nature” NeedsHumansWarUseEarthFormLawHumanityEconomyEconomicChangedDemandModelsResourcesClimateIncludingHuman LifeCollapseExpansionLaws Of NatureContractionsEconomic Models Book:This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate
“The developments in the North were those loosely embraced in the term modernization and included urbanization, industrialization,and mechanization. While those changes went forward apace, the antebellum South changed comparatively little, clinging to its rural, agricultural, labor-intensive economy and its traditional folk culture.” LittlesCultureTermEconomyChangedDevelopmentLaborSouthFolksTraditionalClingingIndustrializationModernizationMechanizationUrbanizationAntebellum Author:C. Vann Woodward
“This country is facing an economy that has been radically transformed.And these changes have been disruptive. They have changed people's lives. The jobs that once sustained our middle class, they either don't pay enough or they are gone, and we need someone that understands that as our nominee.” PeopleNeedsHas BeensCountryEnoughJobsPayClassEconomyGoneMiddleChangedMiddle ClassTransformedDisruptive Author:Marco Rubio
“In the United States today we have the most unequal wealth and income distribution of any major country on earth - worse than at any time since the 1920s. This is an economy that must be changed in fundamental ways.” WayCountryStatesTodayEarthWealthUnitedUnited StatesEconomyChangedMajorsFundamentalsIncomeDistributionIncome Distribution Author:Bernie Sanders