"By the time you rise through the..." - Quote by Ralph Nader

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.”

“I have a consistent rule: The American people should know as much about the Pentagon as the Soviet Union and China do, as much about General Motors as Ford does, and as much about City Bank as Chase Manhattan does.”

“Capitalism will always survive, because socialism will be there to save it.”

“Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.”

“Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together.”

“Most people are other people.”

“Massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.”

“For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however foolish, will be quickly supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated.”

“Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.”