Citas de William Greider

• When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.

  William Greider

  Powerful, Self, People

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• Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by the present reality. A revolutionary principle is embedded in the global economic system, awaiting broader recognition: Human dignity is indivisible. Across the distances of culture and nations, across vast gulfs of wealth and poverty, even the least among us are entitled to dignity, and no justification exists or brutalizing them in the pursuit of commerce.

  William Greider

  Distance, Reality, Principles

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• People know elections, like television commercials, are not real.

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  Real, Television Commercials, People

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.

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  Done, Tolerate, Defined

  William Greider (1998). “One World, Ready Or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

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• De repente se plantea una profunda cuestión política: ¿Debe el país seguir dando prioridad al beneficio económico privado y al determinismo del mercado sobre las vidas humanas y los valores públicos generales?

  William Greider

  Country, Giving, Profound

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• Money is power in American politics. It always has been.

  William Greider

  Power, American Politics, Has Beens

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• Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys.

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  Ideas, Democracy, Captives

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Powerful, Creating, People

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• Las grandes multinacionales no están dispuestas a enfrentarse a las contradicciones morales y económicas de su propio comportamiento: producir en dictaduras con salarios bajos y vender a democracias con salarios altos. De hecho, lo sorprendente de las empresas globales es la facilidad con la que el capitalismo de libre mercado deja de lado sus supuestos valores para hacer negocios. Las condiciones de la libertad humana no les importan mientras la demanda del mercado sea sólida. La ausencia de libertad, en todo caso, aporta orden y eficacia a sus operaciones.

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  Order, Long, Democracy

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• Efficiency obliterates identity

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  Identity, Efficiency

  William Greider (2003). “The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Aside from sending someone to war or to prison, government s ability to make people involuntarily give over their money is its strongest exercise of authority over private citizens and their institutions.

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  War, Exercise, Government

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consensus. What it does require is a spirit of mutual respect-people conversing critically with one another in an atmosphere of honesty and shared regard.

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  Honesty, People, Perfect

  William Greider (1992). “Who will tell the people: the betrayal of American democracy”

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• The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it.

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  Struggle, Government, Liberty

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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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  Wisdom, Lag, Too Much

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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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  Government, Order, Volunteer

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Drama, Political, Events

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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.

  William Greider

  Retirement, People, Income

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• The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

  William Greider

  Mind, Half, Economy

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• The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they intend to alter it, what they expect to gain in return, where they will raise the capital to accomplish their vision. Many of their stories turn out to be flawed or mistaken, of course, but the capacity to envision a set of future events and then act to fulfill them is a central source of capitalism's strength and its dominance of society.

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  Entrepreneur, Creative, Vision

  William Greider (2003). “The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  William Greider

  Self, Dollars, Roles

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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.

  William Greider

  Rights, Done, Benefits

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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.

  William Greider

  Derechos, Derecho, Personas

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• El olor a quemado en Washington procede de la desintegración de la autoridad de las clases gobernantes.

  William Greider

  Class, Odor, Authority

  "All the King’s Media". www.thenation.com. November 3, 2005.

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• The problem of modern democracy is rooted in its neglect of unorganized people.

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  People, Democracy, Problem

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  William Greider

  Acting, World, Ancient

  William Greider (1998). “One World, Ready Or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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