“Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.” ThinkingWorldWellsStatesPoliticalPowerfulSecretDemocracyWonderfulModernDevelopmentCapitalismBuiltToolsInnovationMechanismModern WorldEmpoweredVery Powerful Author:Bill Gates
“The parallel existence and mutual interaction of "state" and "market" in the modern world create "political economy"; without both state and market there could be no political economy.” WorldStatesPoliticalExistenceEconomyModernMutualInteractionParallelsModern WorldPolitical Economy Book:The Political Economy of International Relations Source: The Political Economy of International Relations
“Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.” WorldKindWisdomPoliticalPoliticsEconomyEconomicModernStructureLiberalismRebellionThreateningWorthlessModern WorldProletariatEconomic FreedomPolitical FreedomUsury Book:The Crisis Of Civilization Source: The Crisis Of Civilization
“Coupled with Usury, Unrestricted Competition destroys the small man for the profit of the great and in so doing produces that mass of economically unfree citizens whose very political freedom comes in question because it has no foundation in any economic freedom, that is, any useful proportion of property to support it. Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.” MenWorldKindWisdomPoliticalSupportEconomicModernProduceCitizensMassFoundationStructureCompetitionPropertyProfitProportionRebellionThreateningWorthlessModern WorldProletariatEconomic FreedomPolitical FreedomSmall ManUsuryUnfree Author:Hilaire Belloc