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The
political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy.
It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
-- Ziggy
Marley |  |
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confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think
that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the
trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form
the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human beings
-- John Stuart Mill |
Economics
is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings
and actions.
-- Ludwig von Mises
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These
temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect
contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains,
lift them to the Almighty Dollar.
~ John
Muir |
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We could dramatically accelerate
innovations in sustainability and social justice just by making choices to use
our money for positive solutions.
-- Carol
Newell I think
those of us who have extraordinary wealth have an opportunity to leverage that
wealth to stimulate a just and sustainable economy. I know it goes against the
grain but I know it's possible. It's just about deciding what kind of choices
we want to make.
-- Carol
Newell |
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Instead of having a set
of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we
have policies that are accelerating the most destructive trends of the global
economy.
-- Barack Obama
we've got
a lot of work to do economically in this country to bring about a more just and
fair economy.
-- Barack
Obama
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Anyway
that's a large part of what economics is -- people arbitrarily, or as a matter
of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending
that they haven't just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like
astrology in that sense, except that economics serves to justify the current power
structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers among the powerful
--
Kim Stanley Robinson
The
first man who, having fenced off a plot of land, thought of saying, 'This is mine'
and found people simple enough to believe him was the real founder of civil society.
How many crimes, wars, murders, how many miseries and horrors might the human
race had been spared by the one who, upon pulling up the stakes or filling in
the ditch, had shouted to his fellow men: 'Beware of listening to this imposter;
you are lost if you forget the fruits of the earth belong to all and that the
earth belongs to no one.
Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1755
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But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay
hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human
beings.
-- Franklin
D. Roosevelt |
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Advocates
of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which
are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise
of tyranny over the unfortunate
-- Bertrand
Russell |
Workers
Day
- May 1
Fair
Trade Day - 2nd Sat in May
End
Poverty Day - October 17
Buy
Nothing Day - 4th Fri in November
