"What made traditional economies so radically different and……" — Rebecca Adamson
"What made traditional economies so radically different and so very fundamentally dangerous to Western economies were the traditional principles of prosperity of Creation versus scarcity of resources, of sharing and distribution versus accumulation and greed, of kinship usage rights versus individual exclusive ownership rights, and of sustainability versus growth."
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10 Quotes by Rebecca Adamson
Rebecca Adamson has 10 quotes on this site.
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It takes four generations to recover from every act of violence.
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Using the latest in science and technology to shatter today's economic paradigm of 'insatiable individuals competing for scarce resources,' Planetary…
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For Indigenous people, the goal for our land is definitely about protection, but it's also about use. We see ourselves…
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We are all indigenous people on this planet, and we have to reorganize to get along.
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It's crucial to understand that as a society, we can reorganize. We can reorganize socially, politically, and economically, and we…
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In a society where all are related, simple decisions require the approval of nearly everyone in that society. It is…
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In every Indigenous community I've been in, they absolutely do want community infrastructure and they do want development, but they…
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The interdependency of humankind, the relevance of relationship, the sacredness of creation is ancient, ancient wisdom.
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The indigenous understanding has its basis of spirituality in a recognition of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all living things,…
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Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
— David Byrne
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I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
— Noam Chomsky
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The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary…
— Richard Goldschmidt
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Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of…
— Mahnaz Afkhami
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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is…
— Cyril Connolly
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Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
— Gyorgy Konrad
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It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
— Okakura Kakuzo
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Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you…
— William J. Clinton
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We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our…
— Anne Roiphe
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Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold…
— Brenda Ueland
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We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our…
— Calvin Coolidge
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