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* There's two globalizations... The elite globalization represents minority forces. The elite globalization is about make money... The people's globalization, the democratic mass globalization is about life values. -- Kevin Danaher * The global economy works for about twenty percent of the world, for about eighty percent it doesn't. -- Kevin Danaher * We have a global economy that is not structured around democratizing and including people in the decision-making. It's operated in secret. -- Kevin Danaher

* We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets. -- Eugene V. Debs The economic owning class is always the political ruling class. -- Eugene V. Debs

* The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality. -- John Dewey

"This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals." -- Albert Einstein

Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of power. The kind of economic organization that provides economic freedom directly, namely, competitive capitalism, also promotes political freedom because it separates economic power from political power and in this way enables the one to offset the other
-- Milton Friedman

The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or in the Soviet Union, is rarely hostile to the institutions -- the private business enterprise, the Communist Party -- that reflect the dominant economic power. Not to notice this takes effort, although many succeed.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When a building collapses or a plane crashes, it?s rather inconvenient from the point of view of those inside, but it?s altogether convenient for the growth of the gross national product, which sometimes ought to be called the "gross criminal product." -- Eduardo Galeano

* There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed. ~ Mohandas Gandhi

* There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed. ~ Mohandas Gandhi

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
-- Henry George

* "I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer." ~ Denis Hayes

I think our main foreign policy is economic policy but to think that economic policy is not environmental policy is to sort of, miss the point. You know you can't have economic development without impact on the biosphere. ~ Randy Hayes * Economic policy turns out to be the most important environmental policy. ~ Randy Hayes

If we assume that the purpose of the economy is to serve and improve the welfare of the entire body of citizens, the U.S. model has clearly been a major failure. It has served a minority, and the majority have not only failed to share in the income gains yielded by the model, they have suffered from reduced benefits, greater job instability and stress, and a diminution of expectations and sense of hope for the future.
-- Edward S. Herman

American consumerism is about buying things we don't need, with money we don't have, to impress friends we don't have time for.
-- Leo Horrigan

"Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria." -- Robert Maynard Hutchins

"I sincerely believe...that banking establishments are more dangerous that standing armies." -- Thomas Jefferson

 

Economy Quotes

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Globalization | Labor | End Poverty | Fair Trade

Workers Day - May 1
Fair Trade Day - 2nd Sat in May
End Poverty Day - October 17
Buy Nothing Day - 4th Fri in November