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Economic Power Quotes

Who holds it, who doesn't, and why it matters.

One quote calls organized labor the strongest form of protection workers can build for themselves, economic power built through Credit-worthy solidarity.

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.

Quotes by Samuel Gompers

Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.

Quotes by Robert Ludlum

Trump's victory clearly appears to stem from a sense of economic powerlessness, or a fear of losing power, among his supporters. To them, his simple slogan, 'Make America great again,' sounds like 'Make You great again': economic power will be...

Quotes by Robert J. Shiller

The desperately poor may accept handouts, because they feel they have to. For those who consider themselves at least middle class, however, anything that smacks of a handout is not desired. Instead, they want their economic power back.

Quotes by Robert J. Shiller

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a canonizing institution. Jann Wenner has worked to make Rolling Stone the keeper of the canon since 1970. I don't like that, because he uses institutional power and he uses economic power...

Quotes by Robert Christgau

In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

Quotes by Natsuo Kirino

California lost its way in 1994 with Prop. 187, but that tragic episode gave birth to a new California consciousness - one that will now do everything within its power to protect our diversity and the economic power it has...

Quotes by Kevin de Leon

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.

Quotes by Herbert Hoover

Left-wing shareholder activists seek to leverage the mass economic power of institutional investors such as pension funds, whose managers are supposed to focus strictly on their fiduciary responsibilities to retirees.

Quotes by Elaine Chao

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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...

Quotes by David Korten

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

Quotes by Bobby Seale

The greatest economic power might in fact remain in the hands of the Federal Reserve. Economists credit the Fed's policy of keeping interest rates at historic lows with helping to pump up the economy and bring unemployment down.

Quotes by Andrew Ross Sorkin

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.

Quotes by Alex Campbell

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.

Quotes by Al Gore

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this collection say about economic power?
It weighs who holds economic power and who doesn't, from homemakers in Japan with none of their own, to organized labor unions claiming real collective power, to a warning about power concentrating among too few.
Why do people search for quotes about economic power?
These quotes get used in discussions about inequality, labor rights, or independence, especially the tension between those who have structural economic power and those who depend on others for it.
One quote calls trade unions the workers' 'most direct social insurance,' what does that mean?
It frames organized labor as a practical form of protection built through collective Credit and bargaining power, rather than relying on individual savings or government support alone.
Do any of these quotes address personal versus systemic economic power?
Yes, one contrasts the desperately poor, who may accept handouts out of necessity, with those who consider themselves middle class and reject anything that looks like a handout, showing economic power shapes even how people accept help.
What's the underlying concern across these quotes?
Most point toward the same worry, that economic power is unevenly distributed, whether by gender, class, or organization, and that this Diversity in access shapes real lives.

Full-time homemakers in Japan without any economic power of their own sit at one extreme; a warning that this power keeps concentrating among a small few sits at the other.