#central

Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system is the only possible one—the first reaction you are likely to get is a demand for a detailed architectural blueprint of how an alternative system would work, down to the nature of its financial instruments, energy supplies, and policies of sewer maintenance. Next, you are likely to be asked for a detailed program of how this system will be brought into existence. Historically, this is ridiculous. When has social change ever happened according to someone’s blueprint? It’s not as if a small circle of visionaries in Renaissance Florence conceived of something they called “capitalism,” figured out the details of how the stock exchange and factories would someday work, and then put in place a program to bring their visions into reality. In fact, the idea is so absurd we might well ask ourselves how it ever occurred to us to imagine this is how change happens to begin. ↗

— David Graeber

#blueprint #capitalism #centralization #planning #social-change

The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues. ↗

— Arthur Levitt

#centrality #competition #hand #issues #market

Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#america #central #congress #declaration #express

If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#american consumer #average #average american #becomes #cafta

And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park. ↗

— Christo

#central park #city #most #new #new york

I want all Hispanics in the Republican Party, in the Democratic Party, whether Latin Americans, Central Americans, Cubans, Mexicans, I want us to unite. ↗

— Bill Richardson

#cubans #democratic #democratic party #hispanics #i

Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#central #christian tradition #every #global #goodness

Christianity is the only major religion to have as its central event the humiliation of its God. ↗

— Bruce Shelley

#christianity #event #god #humiliation #major

Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles. ↗

— Charles Scott Sherrington

#antagonistic #central #confined #extensive #finds

The Army War College has been a tradition in central Pennsylvania for years. ↗

— Bill Shuster

#been #central #college #pennsylvania #tradition