Alperovitz Quotes & Sayings

The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared. — Ludwig Borne

It's very important to choose our words very carefully because miscommunication leads to misunderstanding, which rarely leads to anything good. — Charles F. Glassman

...a journey into the unknown in the world without produces a movement towards new and unknown areas in our world within. — Laurens Van Der Post

The most recent estimate is that a mere 400 individuals in the United States now own more wealth than the bottom 180 million Americans taken together -- a degree of wealth concentration that is accurately, not rhetorically, properly designated medieval. — Gar Alperovitz

We've been following many forms of democratized ownership, starting with co-ops, land banks at the neighborhood level, municipal ownership and state ownership of banks - there's a whole series of these that attempt to fill the small-scale infrastructure that can build up to a larger theoretical vision. — Gar Alperovitz

There are areas using what's called the "checkerboard strategy." They are different cities where you can move around the "checkerboard," doing things you can't do in every square, that you can do in some of them, building a mosaic of these kinds of practices. There are about 400 cable television networks, for example, that are publicly owned. That's a big fight for big private companies. In some areas, this is a political struggle, in some it's conventional common sense. — Gar Alperovitz

Internationally, there are countries going well beyond the course, with airlines, transportation. There are systems around the world that have explored mining, rail transport, television, communication, Internet service - there very common examples around the world that we can draw examples from. — Gar Alperovitz

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me. — Matt Groening

Did he really not remember where it was, or is there some primitive
part of a man's brain that starts to shut down whenever a woman comes into their lives? — Tina Reber

The federalism term is a good term, but it's just below the surface; it's just about to come up into wider public understanding that these practices are happening and are politically viable. — Gar Alperovitz

Sociologists tell us that even the most introverted individual will influence ten thousand other people during his or her lifetime! This amazing statistic was shared with me by my associate Tim Elmore. — John C. Maxwell

If you don't have a way to speak to ordinary Americans, you're not in the game. — Gar Alperovitz

The top 400 people own more wealth now than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure. — Gar Alperovitz

Olive Wellwood had the feeling writers often have when told perfect tales for fictions, that there was too much fact, too little space for the necessary insertion of inventions, which would here appear to be lies. — A.S. Byatt

I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist. — John Mayer

And how if she didn't see him for another thirty years she would still love him, how she would still love him if he was dead until she was dead too. — Richard Flanagan

Now, when you play this game, even though you've never played it with me before, you're playing to get even - not with me but with what I represent to you, all those terrible people who cheated you out of your right to win. Then — Bernard De Koven