“[...] There is none that disperses its control more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the mass media - none more successful in mollifying opposition with reforms, isolating people from one another, creating patriotic loyalty.” PeopleSchoolAmericaChurchSituationSuccessfulMediaCreatingMassLoyaltyReformOppositionVotingPatrioticMass Media Book:A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present
“I have been very careful to put forward new ideas - on tackling inequality, extending democratic reform and the green agenda, because I think these are all absolutely fundamental to a successful next period of office for Labour” ThinkingHas BeensIdeasNextSuccessfulPeriodsOfficeFundamentalsGreenDemocraticCarefulInequalityReformLabourAgendasNew IdeasExtendingTackling Author:Peter Hain
“Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.” MenWisdomHumanityPoliticsEconomySuccessfulEnvironmentOriginalsReformOrganizedLiberalismPermitCapabilityInnateBecoming Successful Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“I don't think polarization is some kind of grand distraction. It's real. People have different commitments, believe in different things and principles, different visions of the good life ... but there is also a degree to which all the really big, successful reform movements in the country had extremely bizarre ideological coalitions.” PeopleThinkingBelieveKindDifferentRealCountryBigsVisionPrinciplesSuccessfulMovementDegreesCommitmentReformDifferent ThingsGood LifeDistractionBizarreIdeologicalCoalitionsPolarizationReform Movements Author:Chris Hayes
“To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.” MindPersonsTwoIdeasSuccessfulAverageReformBeing SuccessfulInjuredAverage Minds Author:Susan B. Anthony
“There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs' successful efforts to drag the Republic into five wars. What an aggressive foreign policy accomplishes by slow degrees, a state of war accomplishes in a trice. Overnight [war] kills reform, overnight it transforms insurgents into traitors and the Republic into an imperiled realm. Overnight it strangles free politics, distracts and overawes the citizenry. Overnight it blasts public hope.” WarStatesAmericaEffortSuccessfulFivePolicyDegreesAccomplishReformRealmsRepublicAggressiveForeign PolicyDragBlastTraitorCitizenryInsurgentPuzzling Author:Walter Karp
“Monetary reform, if it is to be genuine and successful, must sever money and banking from politics. That's why a modern gold standard must have: no central bank; no fixed rations between gold and silver; no bail-outs; no suspension of gold payments or other bank frauds; no monetization of debt; and no inflation of the money supply, all of which have proved so disastrous in the past.” IfsPastSuccessfulModernStandardsGoldDebtGenuineReformFixedSilverFraudBankingInflationPaymentMonetaryCentral BanksSuspensionBailGold And SilverGold StandardRations Author:Lawrence Reed