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"The Globalization of humanity is a natural, biological,
evolutionary process. Yet we face an enormous
crisis because the most central and important
aspect of globalization-its economy-is currently
being organized in a manner that so gravely violates
the fundamental principles by which healthy living
systems are organized that it threatens the demise
of our whole civilization.
-- Elisabet
Sahtouris
We
are capable of regaining our reverence for life,
of replacing the drive to conquer with the will
to cooperate, of remaking our engineered institutions,
including our corporations, into living systems.
-- Elisabet
Sahtouris
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The
policy of letting things alone, in the practical
sense that the Government should never interfere
with business or go into business itself, is called
Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It
has broken down so completely in practice that
it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion
in politics a hundred years ago, and is still
influentially advocated by men of business and
their backers who naturally would like to be allowed
to make money as they please without regard to
the interest of the public.
-- George Bernard
Shaw
Capitalism
has destroyed our belief in any effective power
but that of self interest backed by force.
-- George Bernard
Shaw
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A
key issue in managing globalization is therefore
how we organise the global investmentand labour
markets to meet the needs of flexibility for enterprises,
security for workers and quality for consumers.
We need new proactive policies that focus directly
on how authorities in the public and private sphere
can blend economic and social policies with an
enabling environment for private initiative to
create market opportunities for Decent Work.
-- Juan Somavia
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I
think the team that successfully puts together an economic
and social policy framework for global full employment
in decent working conditions based on local development,
that would command the support of all stakeholders and
all international organizations concerned, should be
awarded the [Nobel] prize. I am sure they would get
it not just for economics, but also for peace in the
world.
-- Juan Somavia
I
think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted
with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful
resource -- their workers.
-- John Sweeney, 1995
There
is a growing consensus that Globalization must now be
reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom
of capital.
-- John Sweeney
Clearly,
the Global Economy isn't working for workers in China
and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers
here in the United States.
-- John Sweeney
We
can no longer allow multi-nationalists to parade as
agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers,
even as they subvert it at the workplace.
—John Sweeney
Did
you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience,
when it has no soul to be damned, and nobody to be kicked?
-- Lord Chancellor Thurlow
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It is absolutely sure that if globalization is
not founded on moral values not only will fail
but will bring about global calamities.
-- George Vithoulkas
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Contrary
to the received wisdom, global markets are not unregulated.
They are regulated to produce inequality.
-- Kevin Watkins
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"I'm
helping to create an economic system that will
respect and protect the earth -- one which would
replace corporate globalization with a global
network of local living economies. Business is
beautiful when it's a vehicle for serving the
common good."
-- Judy Wicks
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Since trade ignores national boundaries and the
manufacturer insists on having the world as a
market, the flag of his nation must follow him,
and the doors of the nations which are closed
against him must be battered down. Concessions
obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by
ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of
unwilling nations be outraged in the process.
Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order
that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked
or left unused.
-- Woodrow
Wilson, 1919
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Since
I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided
to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United
States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are
afraid of something. They know that there is a power
somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked,
so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak
above their breath when they speak in condemnation of
it."
-- Woodrow Wilson
