ECONOMY
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The
role of globalization is to homogenize all cultures,
and to turn them into commodified markets, and
therefore, to make them easier for global corporations
to control. Global corporations are even now trying
to commodify all remaining aspects of national
cultures, not to mention indigenous cultures.
-- Jerry
Mander
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The
political system is not for the people. The
people are secondary to the economy. It's about
what generates money, not about what benefits
the people.
-- Ziggy
Marley
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the aim of development must be neither producerism
not consumerism, but the satisfaction of fundamental
human needs, which are not only needs of humanity...
-- Manfred
Max-Neef
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No
matter how hostile the environment in which we are
working is, we must never cease to insist that development
is about people and not about objects. That the aim
of development must be neither producerism not consumerism,
but the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, which
are not only needs of humanity, but needs of being
as well. We will never deny that subsistence is a
fundamental human need which must be satisfied through
adequate income, nutrition, housing and work for all.
But we will also insist that protection, affection,
understanding, participation, leisure, creation, identity
and freedom are extremely fundamental human needs
as well.
-- Manfred Max-Neef
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I
confess that I am not charmed with the ideal
of life held out by those who think that the
normal state of human beings is that of struggling
to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing,
and treading on each other's heels, which form
the existing type of social life, are the most
desirable lot of human beings
-- John Stuart
Mill
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Economics
is not about things and tangible material objects;
it is about men, their meanings and actions.
-- Ludwig von Mises
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These
temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism,
seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature,
and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God
of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty
Dollar.
~ John Muir
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The
essence of globalization is a subordination of
human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental
rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of
global trade and investment.
-- Ralph Nader
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"We live in such a corporate world where
everyone is passing the buck, it seems to
me. Therefore I like stories where the individual
takes responsibility for BEING the individual,
and not just for himself, but for his comrades,
his society and ultimately for his country.
Ultimately, we can all learn a lesson from
that and not be browbeaten by the corporate
world which is taking over."
-- Liam Neeson
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We could dramatically accelerate innovations
in sustainability and social justice just by
making choices to use our money for positive
solutions.
-- Carol Newell
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think those of us who have extraordinary wealth
have an opportunity to leverage that wealth
to stimulate a just and sustainable economy.
I know it goes against the grain but I know
it's possible. It's just about deciding what
kind of choices we want to make.
-- Carol Newell
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we've got a lot of work to do economically in
this country to bring about a more just and
fair economy.
-- Barack Obama
Instead
of having a set of policies that are equipping
people for the globalization of the economy,
we have policies that are accelerating the most
destructive trends of the global economy.
-- Barack Obama
For
the sake of our security, our economy and our
planet, we must have the courage and commitment
to change. -- Barack
Obama
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Anyway
that's a large part of what economics is -- people
arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical
values to non-numerical things. And then pretending
that they haven't just made the numbers up, which
they have. Economics is like astrology in that sense,
except that economics serves to justify the current
power structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers
among the powerful
-- Kim Stanley Robinson
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Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want, to impress people
they don't like.
-- Will Rogers
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The
first man who, having fenced off a plot of land, thought
of saying, 'This is mine' and found people simple
enough to believe him was the real founder of civil
society. How many crimes, wars, murders, how many
miseries and horrors might the human race had been
spared by the one who, upon pulling up the stakes
or filling in the ditch, had shouted to his fellow
men: 'Beware of listening to this imposter; you are
lost if you forget the fruits of the earth belong
to all and that the earth belongs to no one.
Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1755
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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.
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Advocates
of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the
sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied
in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained
in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate
-- Bertrand
Russell
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