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“However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.”

Thinking Values Religious Economic Majors Economics Roots Fundamentals Mere Deeper Opposition Ecology

Book:Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker

Source: Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker

“A spiritual sensibility encourages us to see ourselves as part of the fundamental unity of all being. If the thrust of the market ethos has been to foster a competitive individualism, a major thrust of many traditional religious and spiritual sensibilities has been to help us see our connection with all other human beings.”

Source: The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism

“To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today.”

War Government Today Individual Social Rights Majors Transformation Fundamentals Civil War Amendments Individual Rights Defective Constitutional Government Social Transformation

Author:Thurgood Marshall

“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.”

Way Country States Today Earth Wealth United United States Economy Changed Majors Fundamentals Income Distribution Income Distribution

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.”

Way Lost Majors Fundamentals Labels Bubbles Housing Housing Bubble

Author:Win Butler

“I think, from a progressive point of view, to have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and to have spent the time on Obamacare, which had real benefits, 20 million insured, but not on inequality, was a major cost to the Democratic Party, costing them their majorities, but also a bit of a cost to the country, because it didn't address the fundamental issues that led to Donald Trump and that led to a lot of unhappiness, just the continued widening inequality.”

“The truth is that political consciousness in this country is pretty low... To the degree that we can help educate and organize people around the most important issues facing their lives and show that there is support for fundamental changes in the way we do business in the United States of America in terms of income inequality, in terms of low wages, in terms of disastrous trade policies, in terms of being the only major country not to have a national healthcare program - that's success.”

“You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.”

Play Government Care Fall Nations Roles Majors Function Fundamentals Take Care Agency Etc Reserves Banking Private Sector Treasury Fall Back Federal Reserve Banking System

Author:Dick Cheney

“I say further that for this great legislative body to ignore the Constitution and the fundamental concepts of our governmental system is to act in a manner which could ultimately destroy the freedom of all American citizens, including the freedoms of the very persons whose feelings and whose liberties are the major subject of this legislation.”

Persons Feelings Body Liberty Subjects Citizens Majors Concepts Constitution Fundamentals Including Civil Rights Legislation American Citizens

Book:Where I stand

Source: Where I stand

“All of the government's monetary, economic and political power, as well as its extensive propaganda machinery, will be enlisted in a constant battle to drive down the price of gold - but in the absence of any fundamental change in the nation's monetary, fiscal, and economic direction, simply regard any major retreat in the price of gold as an unexpected buying opportunity.”