Breaking Through Power Quotes

“How often do police accidentally shoot and kill bankers who are committing financial crimes, stealing homes, and plunging the nation into economic instability and recession?”
― Ralph Nader, Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think

“When people break through the abstractions and labels they often find themselves on the same side with their opposites, especially once the discussion gets down to the reality of where people live, work, play, and raise their families. It is precisely because people want the same basic things in life, with obvious variations, that the ruling powers have driven their divide-and-rule strategies throughout history.”
― Ralph Nader, Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think

“In a plutocracy, commercialism dominates far beyond the realm of economics and business; everything is for sale, and money is power. But in an authentic democracy, there must be commercial-free zones where the power of human rights, citizenship, community, equality, and justice are free from the corrupting influence of money. Our elections and our governments should be such commercial-free zones; our environment, air, and water should never fall under the control of corporations or private owners. Children should not be programmed by a huckstering economy where their vulnerable consciousness becomes the target of relentless corporate marketing and advertising.”
― Ralph Nader, Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think