Community Quote by David Korten

On balance, the financial system subracts value from society

— John C. Bogle

Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it enables people to have…

— Bill McKibben

What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of…

— Murray Rothbard

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard…

— Thorstein Veblen

I did not realize that when money becomes a core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life of the mind will…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Money isn't the only thing that must flow and circulate in order to have good value: good turns and gifts must flow and circulate…

— Margaret Atwood

We don't have the leadership or the understanding of the value of this, and when your political systems and your economic systems start to…

— Wynton Marsalis

The dreams of "leaving it up to the market" or of returning to a politically neutral gold standard cannot succeed because the nature of…

— Robert Gilpin

Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.

— Gloria Steinem

Our system here of creating value for others and having people do the right thing, exchange information, and so on only works if people…

— Charles Koch

The more we associate experience with cash value, the more we think that money is what we need to live. And the more we…

— Anonymous