The current system is organized around financial values over life values. We need to shift that locus of power down to the… — David Korten Copy Share Image
More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about… — David Korten Copy Share Image
If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth. — David Korten Copy Share Image
But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which… — David Korten Copy Share Image
My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and… — David Korten Copy Share Image
When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the… — David Korten Copy Share Image
The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations… — David Korten Copy Share Image
To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values… — David Korten Copy Share Image
Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To destroy it… — David Korten Copy Share Image
Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our… — David Korten Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest. — David Korten Copy Share
To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions… — David Korten Copy Share
Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes… — David Korten Copy Share
More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation. — David Korten Copy Share
The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or… — David Korten Copy Share
But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and… — David Korten Copy Share
We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both. — David Korten Copy Share
There was a time in the United States when most of our financial institutions were local. Which essentially meant that local communities were able… — David Korten Copy Share
If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth. — David Korten Copy Share
I am in favor of increased communication and cooperation between countries, but it is more important that each country becomes responsible for its own… — David Korten Copy Share
There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power… — David Korten Copy Share
There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change. — David Korten Copy Share
My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy. — David Korten Copy Share
It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do… — David Korten Copy Share
