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Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they’re rapping. It’s easier to try to censor some kid who’s swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.
Willie Nelsonborn 1933Playboy interview, November 2002.
- Music
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
Jane Fondaborn 1937Newsweek, 1977, in reference to Jean-Luc Godard
- Power
The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make and conservatives who do not know what to conserve.
Simone Weil1909–1943The Power of Words (1937), p. 233
- Economics
We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.
Zohran Mamdaniborn 1991Inauguration address as Mayor of New York City (1 January 2026)
In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light.
Zohran Mamdaniborn 1991Election night victory speech ( 5 November 2025)
Market signals were clear: There’s no profit in preventing a future catastrophe.
Noam Chomskyborn 1928Chomsky: Ventilator Shortage Exposes the Cruelty of Neoliberal Capitalism, April 1, 2020
- Business
- Economics
If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed.
Stephen Hawking1942–2018“Science AMA Series: Stephen Hawking AMA Answers!”, reddit.com (8 October 2015)
- Economics
- Technology
Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
John Maynard Keynes1883–1946The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936), Ch. 24, p. 383
- Economics
- Ideas
Fascism was the shadow or ugly child of communism… As Fascism sprang from Communism, so Nazism developed from Fascism.
Winston Churchill1874–1965The Second World War, Volume 1, The Gathering Storm, Mariner Books (1985), pp. 13-14. First published in 1948.
- History
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Reply to the New York Workingmen’s Democratic Republican Association (21 March 1864); Collected Works, Vol. 7, pp. 259-260
- Economics
- Work
The mode of production of material life determines the social, political and intellectual life process in general.
Karl Marx1818–1883Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859).
- Economics
- Philosophy
It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994), Chapter 102, “Al Capp” (p. 311)
- Charity
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book IV, Chapter IIIn context
- Business
- Economics
Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972Rear platform remarks, Syracuse, New York (10 October 1952)
I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!
Harry S. Truman1884–1972Third Radner Lecture, Columbia University, New York City (29 April 1959), as published in Truman Speaks: Lectures And Discussions Held At Columbia University On April 27, 28, And 29, 1959 (1960), p. 111
- America