Ralph Nader

Lawyer

1934-02-27

Books by Ralph Nader

Unsafe at any speed
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Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!
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The seventeen traditions
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Quotes by Ralph Nader

Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value
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Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.
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Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.
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Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value
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Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.
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When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
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Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.
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President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
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Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.
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