David Korten Quotes

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• When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people.…
• If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.
• I am in favor of increased communication and cooperation between countries, but it is more important that each country becomes responsible for its own actions,…
• There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures…
• Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.
• Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.
• Not exclusively, but the bulk of our local economy should be covered by local currencies, which is more efficient than having global currencies which lose…
• Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating…
• The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary…
• Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To destroy it for money, a…
• To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions that…
• Money is a mechanism for control.
• Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and…
• To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally…
• If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse…
• Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes with…
• In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of…
• As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution…
• But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing…
• Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

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