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Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few. -- Robert Ludlum
To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital. -- Bobby Seale
It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power. -- Jose Saramago
In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence. -- Natsuo Kirino
Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing. -- Oliver Tambo
I love English, though I now call it 'Anglo- American' because we no longer speak British English due to globalization and America's economic power. -- Maurice Druon
The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily. -- Frank Gaffney
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself. -- Herbert Hoover
Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power. -- Jon Meacham
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish. -- Samuel Gompers
Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft. -- George Packer
Nobody messes with China, nobody messes with the United States, or with Europe, because these are really big entities with a lot of clout and a lot of economic power. They have a place at the table. -- Mo Ibrahim
Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights. -- Al Gore
I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not in a position to behave as badly, because you don't have the economic power. -- Claire Tomalin
From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase. -- Alex Campbell
Russia - having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it's pretty clear when you meet him that he has an almost limitless ambition for power. And he's been very good at acquiring it - political power, economic power, military power, territorial power. -- Carly Fiorina
At its best, management theory is part of the democratic promise of America. It aims to replace the despotism of the old bosses with the rule of scientific law. It offers economic power to all who have the talent and energy to attain it. -- Matthew Stewart
Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way. -- David Korten
The U.S. might enjoy overwhelming military advantage, but its relative economic power, which in the long run is almost invariably decisive, is in decline. The interregnum after the Cold War, far from being the prelude to a new American age, was bearing the signs of what is now very visible: the emergence of a multipolar world. -- Martin Jacques
Money is economic power. -- Walter Bagehot
Political power without economic power is sterile. -- Louis O. Kelso
All countries have problems with China's economic power. -- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength. -- Stafford Cripps
Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life -- Lewis Mumford
The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly. -- Nikolai Berdyaev
As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
The pendulum of economic power might well begin to shift from capital back to labor. -- Stephen S. Roach
Need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power. -- Henry Hazlitt
No economic, political or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind -- Willis Harman
God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we. -- Timothy Keller
The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny. -- Milton Friedman
The true greatness of a nation lies in its character, not in its economic or military power. -- Daniel L Dreisbach
So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power. -- Frederick Jackson Turner
A market is not politically neutral; its existence creates economic power which one actor can use against another. -- Robert Gilpin
These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power. -- Edward Snowden
I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else. -- Bill McKibben
The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce. -- Louis O. Kelso
Carbon negative power plants can provide energy while they overcome poverty and change economic values in the right direction. -- Graciela Chichilnisky
The central element in the economic problem of money is the objective exchange-value of money, popularly called its purchasing power. -- Ludwig von Mises
The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo. -- Dan Quayle
The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. -- Najib Razak
It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power. -- Michael Pare
America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal. -- Lincoln Chafee
We have power not just with our voices, but we have economic power in what we do for a living, too. -- Tom Morello
In both Israel and America, Jews have experienced unparalleled freedoms, achieved great economic success, and exercised appropriate degrees of political power. -- Meir Soloveichik
War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society. -- Henry Giroux
According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights. -- Michel Chossudovsky
The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom. -- Hilaire Belloc
Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state. -- Kirkpatrick Sale
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. -- Noam Chomsky
The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power. -- Charles A. Reich
We live in a world in which celebrity recognition, media access, and power translate very quickly into political power and indeed economic power. -- Alexander Stille
In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation. -- Maggie Gallagher
We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure. -- Ibrahim Babangida
Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit. -- Richard M. Nixon
Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Behind the screen of the ballot, the real holders of power ... are the great industrial and monetary monopolies who own our national economic life. -- Florence Luscomb
The reality is that China is a much stronger power today, because the economic dimension has been added to the military and strategic one. -- Sugata Bose
Our world faces incredible economic uncertainty. The notion of what is a super power has evolved, and who actually can carry what muscle has changed. -- Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy? -- Bernie Sanders
By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many. -- Anita Roddick
Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions. -- Barney Frank
We favor the economic unification of Germany. If complete unification cannot be secured, we shall do everything in our power to secure the maximum possible unification. -- James F. Byrnes
For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US? -- Fredric Jameson
For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US? -- Fredric Jameson
We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and our ideals. -- Barack Obama
The concern that I have is that, as wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few, economic inequality grows, and power also becomes more unequal. -- Jane Mayer
I never thought of political endeavors primarily in terms of power and prestige, and I never thought of economic endeavors primarily in terms of wealth and position. -- William J. Clinton
The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not be perversely and irresponsibly exercised. -- Herbert Croly
[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny. -- John Adams
The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life in pursuit of greed and power. -- Richard Trumka
Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role. -- Robert Kagan
I use the word power broadly. Even more important than military and economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope. -- Condoleezza Rice
What we see happening with this Republican strategy is a willingness to threaten the very foundation of the world's greatest economic power. That is a very risky proposition. -- Jay Carney
For a good chunk of Israelis, it doesn't matter who is in power when it comes to dealing with the Palestinians. Their focus was more on economic issues. -- Jonathan Katz
There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy. -- Zephyr Teachout
The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power. -- Ralph Nader
As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by the economic power of the big unions. -- Margaret Chase Smith
You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstacles are social and political - what you need is the will to do it. -- Mark Z. Jacobson
By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing. -- Jesmyn Ward
The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation. -- Joe Biden
It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume. -- Louis D. Brandeis
China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. . -- Bernard Arnault
The free market is not only a more efficient decision maker than even the wisest central planning body, but even more important, the free market keeps economic power widely dispersed. -- Milton Friedman
The foremost challenge is that of the knowledge revolution. Economic power will depend on creativity and innovation. Creation of wealth will move from traditional resources to the one asset: knowledge. -- Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
An exploration of the challenges Korea faces in transforming its economy from a government-directed, low-cost producer to an innovative world economic power based on its own scientific and technological development. -- Lewis M. Branscomb
The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people. -- Mao Zedong
Science that abdicates its cultural values risks being perceived as an extension of technology, an instrument in the hands of political or economic power. Humanity that disavows science risks falling into the hands of superstition. -- Nicola Cabibbo

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