Sentences with phrase «more wealth and power»

If one accepts the root cause of the ills in the world today is the monetary system which enslaves the 99 % in debt while banks continue to accrue yet more wealth and power, an alternative system needs to be developed.

Ours is a society that has amassed more wealth and power than any other in history.

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As I describe in Survival +, there is a positive feedback in the process of concentrating wealth and thus political power: the more wealth one acquires, the more political influence one can purchase, which then enables the accumulation of even more wealth as the State / Elite partnership showers benefits and monopolies on those who fund elections, i.e. the wealthy.

Saudi Arabia used to be a quiet giant in the Middle East, more than happy to be the world's largest source of oil, minting petrodollars and spreading the wealth, internally, to keep the powers that be in charge and the populace placated.

Given Redstone's power and wealth — then estimated at more than $ 6 billion — the dispute seemed almost beneath his notice.

The financial sector wins at the point where you don't see that the prices that the banks are inflating are asset prices — real estate prices, bond and stock prices — and that the role of commercial banks is to increase the power of wealth over the rest of society, over labour, over industry, to create a new ruling - class of bankers that are even more heavy than the landlords that were criticised in the last part of the 19th century.

I believe you think we are heading for a long period of low returns, but still, with such a long investment horizon ahead of you, don't you think it could make sense to be more exposed to public equities, maybe in passive index funds, and trust the long term wealth building power of that asset class without so much attention to continuous portfolio rebalancing trying to anticipate short term returns?

Even though power and wealth have now become more broadly distributed towards human, financial and technological capital, land ownership remains a key index of one's standing in society.

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A simple withdrawal sequence might involve withdrawing from taxable accounts first and tax advantaged accounts last, but, according to Daniel Hunt, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Senior Asset Allocation Strategist, even - more complex withdrawal sequencing strategies can have a significantly greater impact on lifetime spending power.

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No, I think he meant the belief that suffering is a «kiss from Jesus», that women can't make decisions about their own bodies, that the RCC's wealth, power and reputation are more important than doing what is right, and that children are there for the pleasure of the clergy.

That is not free - market capitalism as capitalists do not forgive debt and, as evidenced by the Reaganomic fallout we are living in today, they like to hoard wealth and assets in order to wield more power and control.

They might make a few motions that look like communism, but they are more interested in keeping their personal power and wealth, no different than Qaddafi in Libya, or any of thousands of dictators and ruling elites throughout human history.

In the Third World the results of development policies geared to the international market are more dramatic in their tendency to concentrate wealth and power.

One word of truth has more power than all the wealth of earth and all the armies of the world together.

Those who are wealthy simply have that much more temptation: privileges to protect, comfort to be seduced by, power to put faith in, wealth to serve and worship.

Those who have the power and wealth generally want to keep it, even if it is more than they could possibly need.

The one person in a thousand who now plays a significant role in deciding human destiny is likely to enjoy her, or, more often, his status, power, and wealth and the exercise of the skills that have led to this exalted position.

This will not happen until the people and leaders, after centuries of deprivation, finally reaching Deng Xiaoping's admonition in the end of the 1970s that «to get rich is glorious,» but also come to realize (if ever) that it takes much more than wealth and power to provide a good life for all its people.

A book written by men, for men, to subdue the masses and create more power and wealth.

From the vestments (which are really nothing more than the Fourth Century CE court clothing of the Eastern Roman Empire), the canonized saints (which are essentially «Christian» demigods that replaced the pagan pantheon), the numerous feast days and holy days (which replaced pagan holidays), the statues and painted icons (which replaced pagan idols), and the episcopal structure (in which «third sons» of landed aristocrats who had no hope of inheriting their fathers» titles and lands could become «princes of the church» with as much worldly comfort as the «first sons» and almost as much wealth and power), the Anglican Church was practically indistinguishable from the Roman Church except that they used English in the Mass instead of Latin.

Greenberg believes these arrangements lasted in ancient Greece until women developed more power, wealth and independence and gradually demanded an end to their husbands» extracurricular sexual activities.

They prefer to just skim the surface — provides for more followers and power and wealth.

I am more cynical myself and think Perry is a fake who uses faith to further a political career on behalf of the hidden manipulators of extreme wealth and power.

The same tradition that stretches back to the Buddha and runs up through Thoreau, the constant countercultural witness, the never - ending whisper in our ear that we'd be happier, more satisfied, the more we laid aside our hopes for immortality, for power, for wealth.

Wall Street and other more established centers of wealth and power, not so much.

Billy likes power, fame, wealth, and his own personal agenda, and Romney is a place for him to step on, much more so than Obama.

Man created stories about gods because he did not understand the world around him, even the christians believed that the world was the center of the universe 400 years ago, but as man gained knowledge religions had to rethink their dogma to jive with the facts, in order to hold onto the wealth and power they covet more than anything else, period.

Those who hold this name are often considered to be competent and practical when it comes to power and wealth meaning that they will be more than likely successful in business.

on the face of it the American left are socially liberal but the bottom line is the more control they take over the economy and the redistribution of wealth, the more power they will gain over society at large and the more power they will have to implement social engineering projects.

And given more power to those who already have wealth is likely to tend to concentrate power over time.

What's needed is something more radically democratic: a new politics of equitable redistribution of power, wealth and life chances that shows populism to be a form of counterfeit democracy.

«This boycott worked, and demonstrates that solidarity among fair - minded people can be more than a match for the power of wealth,» said HTC President Peter Ward.

The ruling was a step backward, one more reason to be cynical about a system that always seems to find a loophole for insiders with wealth and power.

That power, however, is largely the power to block things — more state spending, higher taxes, and wealth redistribution — according to Sherrill.

Becoming king also bestows upon the king the powers of the Black Panther, though his threats aren't physical so much as political, having to deal with not only external forces who want to use Wakanda's stash of the worlds hardest and most powerful metal, vibranium, to their advantage, but also within Wakanda, among those who feel that they have a responsibility to share their advancement with the world to help those who desperately need its harnessed powers to heal, or, more extreme, to use their secretive wealth in resources and weapons technology to right centuries of wrongs for people of African descent around the world through a revolution.

His compatriot Nakia (Lupita Nyong» o) admonishes T'Challa that he and Wakanda can do more, that its endless wealth of renewable resources carries with it the responsibility to use that naturally gifted power for the greater good.

For the powers that be throughout the world to have a collective Moment of Zen, to borrow from Jon Stewart, in which they realize they have more power and wealth than could be consumed in multiple lifetimes.

Anniversaries, TV shows, movies, documentaries and even little old publishers with good intentions and limited funds can draw people's attention to the wealth of truly classic literature available in individual slices for less than a cup of coffee, but it takes a co-ordinated and sustained effort, based on nothing more or less than a belief in the inherent worth, to individuals, to society and, especially, to children and young people, of great books and of the power of reading.

Speaking «truth to power,» his tax - the - rich talk at a Wall St. rally fit right in with the angry mob that thinks wealth is evil and that if A has more money than B, A owes B some of it.

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Soon he has more power and wealth than he's ever dreamed of, and for a while all seems to be well.

And Barry wants more so his buddies in Washington can acquire more power and more wealAnd Barry wants more so his buddies in Washington can acquire more power and more wealand more wealth.

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