The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change.
To tell you the truth, I see any revolution as basically a penmanship exercise. It all loops around and winds up where you started.
While our responses to the problems facing us immediately are also important, we cannot forget to carve out the future of Japan ten or one hundred years into the future. In doing so, we must not resort to superficial measures. Instead, it is imperative to engage in true reforms that ascertain the state of society we seek to achieve.
Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away.
This is not a Budget, but a revolution; a social and political revolution of the first magnitude.
5th Earl of Rosebery
One cannot pretend that the sending of a dozen men to a country will lead to a revolution.
Over the years, the government launched more than one 'war on corruption,' and they all failed. Why? Because they all started from the bottom up.
No country now in transition will be able to accommodate demands for either economic security or social justice anytime soon.
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
I am not running for president in order to put Band-Aids on our problems.
China’s rulers … have come to see their purpose less as generating enormous change and more as maintaining the system and enhancing their performance.
We believe that a society in turmoil cannot be saved through mere legislation.
I want a prepared, organized, orderly and resistless revolution.
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.
We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.
Nor do piecemeal steps however well intended, even partially resolve problems that have reached a universal, global and catastrophic character. If anything, partial 'solutions' serve merely as cosmetics to conceal the deep seated nature of the ecological crisis. They thereby deflect public attention and theoretical insight from an adequate understanding of the depth and scope of the necessary changes.
If one truly wishes to found a more just and rational social order, it is not enough to count on the caprices of technology.
We have to change the system. The system is very rotten. The executive is corrupt, the Congress is corrupt, the judiciary is corrupt. ... So what's left We really have to have a radical and surgical change to bring back the image of our country.
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
It's not trickle down economics. The problem that the president has is that he's rudderless on the economy. I mean, he doesn't quite know what to do. It's a wake-up on Monday and try to figure it out. It takes time to turn a supertanker, so you need to know where you need to go.
You cannot get a new economy without a new society.
I wouldn't want the country to be faced with a choice in 2024 between a discredited Conservative party that has inflicted unnecessary destruction on our economy versus a semi-Marxist Labour party. People would be left with such a terrible choice.
The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.
The thing is, getting rid of racism is a cultural thing that takes decades. It's not something we can solve immediately. Structural changes have to happen in our culture.
