“Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed.” LooksStatesUsedStruggleEconomyRevolutionUnionsIslamSovietColonialismSoviet UnionImperialismMonopolySlogansKhomeini Author:Azar Nafisi
“Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France.” PersonsUsedPresidentEconomyHugeUniversalFranceCharismaSuffrageUniversal Suffrage Author:Francois Hollande
“Most people, I suspect, still have in their minds an image of America as the great land of college education, unique in the extent to which higher learning is offered to the population at large. That image used to correspond to reality. But these days young Americans are considerably less likely than young people in many other countries to graduate from college. In fact, we have a college graduation rate that's slightly below the average across all advanced economies.” PeopleMindStillsCountryFactsRealityAmericaYoungUsedEconomyLandCollegeHigherUniqueRateAveragePopulationThese DaysSuspectsGraduatesOther CountriesCollege EducationCollege GraduationHigher Learning Author:Paul Krugman
“There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.” PeopleWorldKindTwoWisdomTodayUsedPoliticsEconomyKnowingThis WorldGoldHorseStuckImpressionAssLiberalismGrandmotherCoveredMy Grandmother Book:Don Quixote Source: Don Quixote
“All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be said of the Socialists' ideal. They are saying that private property is too ideal not to be impossible. They are saying that private enterprise is too good to be true. They are saying that the idea of ordinary men owning ordinary possessions is against the laws of political economy and requires an alteration in human nature.” MenHumansSaidIdeasRealLawPoliticalUsedPoliticsEconomyIssuesImpossibleHuman NatureOrdinaryConsciousIdealsPropertyPossessionUsed To BeBeing TrueLiberalismEnterprisePrivate PropertyOrdinary ManAlterationsPolitical EconomyPrivate EnterpriseToo Good To Be True Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The purpose of finance is to enable business to acquire the ownership of capital instruments before it has saved the funds to buy and pay for them. The logic used by business in investing is things that will pay for themselves is not today available to the 95% born without capital. Most of us owe instead of own. And the less the economy needs our labor, the less able we are to "save" our way to capital ownership.” WayNeedsWisdomTodayAbleUsedPurposePoliticsBornPayEconomyLaborLogicInstrumentsInvestingAvailableSavedFinanceLiberalismAcquireFundOwnership Author:Louis O. Kelso
“Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.” IfsProblemWisdomUsedPoliticsMoralEconomyConcernConvictionLiberalismPreacher Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“Adam Smith's was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural harmony of interests within each nation... But the "children of darkness" were able to make good use of his creed. A dogma which was intended to guarantee the economic freedom of the individual became the "ideology" of vast corporate structures of a later period of capitalism, used by them, and still used, to prevent a proper political control of their power.” WorldWellsChildrenStillsRealUseAblePoliticalUsedPoliticsIndividualNationsInterestCommunityNaturalDarknessEconomyEconomicPeriodsCapitalismHarmonyStructureIdeologyCorporateLiberalismGuaranteesAdamCreedsDogmaLaissez FaireEconomic FreedomUniversalismLaissez Faire Capitalism Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“Marxism was the social creed and the social cry of those classes who knew by their miseries that the creed of the liberal optimists was s snare and a delusion... Liberalism and Marxism share a common illusion of the "children of light." Neither understands property as a form of power which can be used in either its individual or its social form as an instrument of particular interest against the general interest.” ChildrenWisdomLightFormUsedPoliticsIndividualSocialInterestCommonClassEconomyShareCryParticularIllusionInstrumentsPropertyMiseryLiberalismDelusionCreedsOptimistMarxismSnares Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“It appears it would be quite un-American not to be suspicious of the government or to distrust it. History has taught them a little too much about the tragic frailties of human governments, but it has also driven home to them that they must control firmly political and economic power, which, handed over to any government in their land, could be easily used to oppress them.” HumansLittlesHomeWisdomGovernmentWould BePoliticalUsedPoliticsEconomyToo MuchEconomicLandTaughtDrivenLiberalismTragicDistrustSuspiciousFrailtyEconomic Power Author:Ndabaningi Sithole
“And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.” PlayUsedMotherFightingHurtEconomyStreetsInevitableBrooklynSave Me Author:Sanford I. Weill
“When you take away the subsistence economy, then your farm population is seriously exposed to the vagaries of the larger economy. As it used to be, the subsistence economy carried people through the hard times, and what you might call the housewife's economy of cream and eggs often held these farms and their families together.” PeopleHardMightTogetherUsedEconomyPopulationUsed To BeHard TimesEggsFarmsExposedCreamHousewifeSubsistenceFamily Together Author:Wendell Berry
“It used to be that companies with industrial economies of scale created business success. Now, success will come from the information economies of scale, either the ones with complete breadth, or complete depth.” UsedCompanyEconomyInformationDepthScalesUsed To BeBusiness SuccessBreadth Author:Tucker Max
“We recognize the force of the argument that the effects of war under modern conditions may be felt in the economy for years and years, and that if the war power can be used in days of peace to treat all the wounds which war inflicts on our society, it may not only swallow up all other powers of Congress but largely obliterate the Ninth and the Tenth Amendments as well.” IfsYearsWellsMayWarUsedForceFeltPowerEconomyModernConditionsEffectsEconomicsArgumentTreatsConstitutionCongressWoundsOur SocietyAmendmentsEffects Of War Author:William O. Douglas
“We are committed to cleaning up the air and cleaning up the water. But we also are committed to a strong economy, and we are not going to allow the environmental issue to be used sometimes falsely and sometimes in a demagogic way basically to destroy the system-the industrial system that made this the great country it is.” WayMadeCountrySometimesUsedStrongWaterEconomyIssuesAirEnvironmentalCommittedPollutionCleaningGreat CountryCleaning UpEnvironmental IssuesStrong Economy Author:Richard M. Nixon
“I can't really blame a lot of young sisters and brothers who believe that education has anything to offer them. Because as a matter of fact, it has nothing to offer them. Suppose they do get a high school diploma that is meaningful. What kind of job is awaiting them. The jobs that used to be available to working class people are not there as a result of the de-industrialization of this economy.” PeopleBelieveKindI CanMatterFactsSchoolJobsYoungUsedResultsClassEconomyBrotherOffersHigh SchoolBlameAvailableMeaningfulUsed To BeWorking ClassBrothers And SistersMatter Of FactDiplomaIndustrializationHigh School Diploma Author:Angela Davis
“I used to download a lot of music, and I understand it in this economy, but personally I buy my music. It feels good to be able to support a band you like. Plus, it'd be really hypocritical if I were still doing that, since I really hope people are buying and experiencing my music.” PeopleIfsFeelsStillsAbleUsedSupportEconomyBandFeel GoodBuyingPlusHypocriticalDownloads Author:Max Bemis
“There is no reason products and services could not be swapped directly by consumers and producers through a system of direct exchange – essentially a massive barter economy. All it requires is some commonly used unit of account and adequate computing power to make sure all transactions could be settled immediately. People would pay each other electronically, without the payment being routed through anything that we would currently recognize as a bank. Central banks in their present form would no longer exist – nor would money.” PeopleReasonFormUsedPayEconomyProductsDirectAccountsProducersConsumersNo ReasonMassiveUnitsAdequatePaymentTransactionsComputingCentral Banks Author:Mervyn King