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“Three hundred men, who all know each other direct the economic destinies of the Continent and they look for successors among their friends and relations. This is not the place to examine the strange causes of this strange state of affairs which throws a ray of light on the obscurity of our social future.”

Knows Men Looks States Light Three Social Causes Destiny Economic Strange Hundred Direct Relation Affair Jew Rays Continents Obscurity Successors Rays Of Light

Author:Walther Rathenau

“It took the national debt two hundred years to reach $1 trillion. Supply Side Economics quadrupled the national debt to over $4 trillion in twelve years (1980-1992) under the Republicans. Bill Clinton actually paid down the national debt. How did he do it? He raised taxes. It produced the longest sustained economic expansion in U.S. History.”

Years Two Sides Economic Republican Taxes Hundred Economics Paid Bills Clinton Raised Debt Twelve Expansion National Debt Supply Side Economics

Book:Straight Talk from the Heartland: Tough Talk, Common Sense, and Hope from a Former Conservative

Source: Straight Talk from the Heartland: Tough Talk, Common Sense, and Hope from a Former Conservative

“The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum for emotional orphans. For over three hundred years, refugees from political oppression, religious persecution, famine, poverty, and a rigid class system which limited educational and economic opportunities have been leaving their native villages and cities and coming to the United States in search of freedom and a better life.”

“My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago.”

Years Has Beens Two Three Belief Technology Economic Hundred Years Ago Logic Cruelty Sophisticated Unimaginable Personal Beliefs

Author:David Foster Wallace

“I don't think you can pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere indefinitely and not have a reaction. But there are great scientists such as Freeman Dyson, one of the greatest physicists of the last hundred years, who has studied the question, who believes quite the opposite. The reason transnational action is so difficult is because the major problem with climate change is, A, that there is no consensus, and, B, that the economic cost is simply staggering. Reversing it completely might mean undoing the modern industrial economy.”

“People must understand the Clean Ganga program, as an economic activity also. The Gangetic plains account for 40% of our population. They have over one hundred towns, and thousands of villages.”

People Economic Activity Hundred Empowerment Program Accounts India Towns Clean Population Village

Author:Narendra Modi

“One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.”

Years Nations Social President Economic Citizens Hundred Slave Injustice Oppression Delay Boast Heirs Grandson President Lincoln

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.”

“It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people.”

People Ifs Ideas Form Millions Economic Century Despair Hundred Socialism New Ideas 20th Century Stagnation

Author:Llewellyn Rockwell

“The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.”

“Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves.”

Knows Men Three Destiny Economic Hundred Europe Direct New World Order World Order Successors

Author:Walther Rathenau

“We're obviously at the edge of something quite new in humanity's experience. That is this globalization process which isn't just economic or social, but involves the interpenetration of cultures, people moving to different places several times in their lifetime, traveling for business or pleasure, and marrying people of very different cultural backgrounds, all of which was almost impossible a hundred years ago.”

People Years Different Moving Humanity Culture Social Process Pleasure Impossible Economic Hundred Years Ago Lifetime Edges Backgrounds Time Travel Globalization Different Place Marrying

Author:Thomas Keating

“Social mobility decreased under Labour and under the current government it is reversing. The differences between the poorest and richest are returning to Victorian levels. We don't have open sewers and infant mortality rates at fifty percent but in economic terms we're getting to a level of disparity we haven't seen for a couple of hundred years. And we're getting there very quickly.”

“For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.”

Years Littles Stills Liberty Economic Hundred Fairs Economics Foul Avarice Precaution Usury Avarice Greed

Book:Essays in persuasion

Source: Essays in persuasion

“The suburban cycle which began a hundred years ago is nearly over. We are in for a period of contraction and economic hardship.”

Years Economic Periods Hundred Years Ago Cycles Hardship Contractions

Author:James Howard Kunstler

“If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.”

Ifs Problem Millions Economic Hundred Pounds Banking

Author:John Maynard Keynes

“More striking still, it appeared that, if the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another century we shall have all American industry controlled by a dozen corporations and run by perhaps a hundred men. Put plainly, we are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already.”

Ifs Men Stills Ends Running Courses Process Economic Century Goes On Industry Hundred Rate Corporations Concentration Controlled Steady Dozen Oligarchy Steering

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt