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William Greider Inspirational Quotes (39)

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Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.
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The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.
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Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.
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The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.
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If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others.
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Everyone cares for disabled people, right? What they don't care for are genuine civil rights for disabled people. MARY JOHNSON tells the tortuous, enraging story of how Congress enacted a law that instead of protecting against discrimination has turned 'the disabled' into a political punching bag.
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Maybe the reason some folks lag behind in our free enterprise system is because they depend too much on the free part and not enough on their own enterprise.
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The scandalous question that hangs over modern government and excites perpetual outrage is about political money and what it buys. What exactly do these contributors get in return for the hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars they funnel to the politicians?
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Efficiency obliterates identity
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The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.
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If everyone has to be a watchdog in order to make government work, then the foxes will also volunteer to serve.
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The quest for homeland security is heading ... toward the quasi-militarization of everyday life ... If danger might lurk anywhere, maybe everything must be protected and policed.
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Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.
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In its present terms, the global system values property over human life.
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The rich nations of the world are acting like ancient usurers, lending money to the desperate poor on terms that cannot possibly be met and, thus, steadily acquiring more and more control over the lives and assets of the poor.
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When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.
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The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it.
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Creating a positive future begins in human conversation. The simplest and most powerful investment any member of a community or an organisation can make is to begin with other people as though the answers mattered.
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In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.
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If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.
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People know elections, like television commercials, are not real.
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The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.
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The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.
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The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.
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