Quote

Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.

Ralph Nader

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ralph Nader
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: February 27
Activist
Environmentalist
Historian
Lawyer
Lobbyist
Novelist
Politician
University Teacher
Writer
Litchfield County
Connecticut
Knew
Medieval
Lord
Employees
Today
Employee
Much
Slavery
Never
Master
Organization
Desensitized
Large
Serfs
Masters
Peasants

More quotes by Ralph Nader

Image
I always say there's no ticket of admission for active citizenship. Anybody can get through that gate, and anybody can ask that basic question that gets the ball rolling.
Ralph Nader
Image
The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.
Ralph Nader
Image
We are practicing what we preach so that we may preach what we practice.
Ralph Nader
Image
Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).
Ralph Nader
Image
She was the light of our lives, our anchor, compass and vision.
Ralph Nader
Image
That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it.
Ralph Nader
Image
As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.
Ralph Nader
Image
General Motors could buy Delaware if DuPont were willing to sell it.
Ralph Nader
Image
The various Social Security privatization schemes, full and partial, would cost both the 'social' - that is the public, cooperative, societal - element of the program and 'security' - the rock-solid income guarantee afforded by the system. It should be rejected.
Ralph Nader
Image
There are very significant ways around America on how to break its grip, which is, of course, a way to exclude dissenting voices before tens of millions of people.
Ralph Nader
Image
Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
Ralph Nader
Image
There are some people in this world who would never plant a seed because it doesn't produce fruit the first season.
Ralph Nader
Image
George W. Bush is very vulnerable but not if you campaign the way the major candidates - except for Dean and Kucinich - are campaigning.
Ralph Nader
Image
The threats are coming to this country, which will, of course, increase the massive industry known as the anti-terrorism industry, and crush our civil liberties and civil rights, And it's devouring our priorities here in communities all over the country which are in such disrepair and are so neglected in terms of public works and public services.
Ralph Nader
Image
Word of mouth is the most effective means of communication.
Ralph Nader
Image
Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.
Ralph Nader
Image
The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals.
Ralph Nader
Image
Now unless you have billions of dollars, it's impossible to reach tens of millions of American people no matter how hard you campaign.
Ralph Nader
Image
The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
Ralph Nader
Image
Everything will be solar in 30 years.
Ralph Nader