Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Quotes

… economic systems ... have never arranged themselves by themselves. It is men who do the ordering according to their attitudes, desires and understanding of things. Changes take place, not independent of man's will, but on account of man's wills. Civilization has progressed by man's interference with material conditions.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

We must be proud of not being needles and threads in the hands of fate as it sews the motley cloth of history.... We know that this cloth is not sewn without us.... And that is not all. We can change the pattern of the carpet.

Man is as the Lord made him. But we can change our institutions.

Political, social and economic realities are shaped by a historical process.

The distribution of wealth ... depends on the laws and customs of society ... what the opinions and feelings of the ruling class make them, and are very different in different ages and countries; and might be still more different, if mankind so chose.

A society based on … reality must reconcile in its life, the categories of permanence and change.

Although capitalism is, in principle, strongly individualistic, it has contributed in practice to reinforce the trend to integration, because it has made our lives more and more interdependent.

When capitalism changes, so must socialism.

There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.

I think that it's difficult to talk about large questions of economics or social policy without understanding the building blocks of society. And those building blocks are organizations, the people who run them, and the people who work in them.

Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.

Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings

If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.

The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.

Even if someone doesn't look like you or you don't know people like this in your real life, you get to know them and you get to see their humanity and you get to empathize with them. Our hope is that through empathy that can spark change. We hope people start talking to each other and our show sparks conversation because we need to start talking to each other, not at each other.

We have all the numbers we need to turn this system on its head.

There's a new reality born every minute. Unless one is a believer in predestination (in which case I'll call the prestidigitator), or other puppet-like restraints on our powers, one is free to imagine and effect changes on the world. And if enough people do it, there are big changes. These things happen. Anything can.

We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.

People are born in a certain place, and in a certain society. I don't mean to sound like a determinist, but to think we're entirely free to do whatever we want betrays a certain class perspective. For most people who have to work for a living, and work at jobs under conditions they may not like, it's just not simple when it comes to freedom.

If you have compassion for society, only then will the events of your life, sow seeds of revolution in it.

Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no group of idealists can easily move the pattern of history toward the desired goal of peace and justice. The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.

I think that systems that are based on employment are illogical and attempts to meet them create all sorts of unnecessary complexities.