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.
—Ralph Nader
Topics: Slavery
This administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.
—Ralph Nader
Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.
—Ralph Nader
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
—Ralph Nader
Your best teacher is your last mistake.
—Ralph Nader
Topics: Mistakes
Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.
—Ralph Nader
Water is the most precious, limited natural resource we have in this country…But because water belongs to no one – except the people – special interests, including government polluters, use it as their private sewers
—Ralph Nader
Topics: Water
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
—Ralph Nader
Topics: Good, Best
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
—Ralph Nader
When strangers start acting like neighbors… communities are reinvigorated.
—Ralph Nader
Topics: Neighbors
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
—Ralph Nader
Topics: Democracy
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