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 | Militarism.
. . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined,
capitalism will fail.
-- Helen Keller
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Capitalism is the astounding
belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for
the greatest good of everyone.
-- John Maynard Keynes
"Globilization
in its current form cannot deliver the benefits expected of it. Civil society,
particularly in developing countries, must ensure that it does."
-- Martin
Khor, Director, Third World Network
| When machines
and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important
than people; the giant triplets of racism, militarism, and economic exploitation
are incapable of being conquered. A true revolution of values will soon cause
us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies...
--
Martin Luther King, Jr
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"This is a role
our nation has taken. The role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible
by refusing to give up the priveleges and pleasures that comes from the immense
profits of overseas investments. I'm convinced that if we are to get on the right
side fo the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution
of values. We must rapidly begin to shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented
society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered
more important than people; the giant triplets of racism, militarism, and economic
exploitation are incapable of being conquered. A true revolution of values will
soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies...
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of
values will soon look on uneasily upon the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth
with righteous indignation. It will look across the seas and see individual capitalists
of the West invest in huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America only
to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries,
and say 'this is not just'. It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry
of Latin America and say 'this is not just'. Western arrogance of feeling it has
everything to teach others, and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true
revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: 'This way
of settling differences is not just.' This business of burning human beings with
napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous
drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark
and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot
be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after
year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift
is approaching spiritual death."
--
Martin Luther King, Jr
| The truly powerful
feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified
delicacy of all: impunity.
-- Naomi
Klein We are
looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those
things from our communities or from each other.
-- Naomi
Klein
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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. What we are experiencing might best
be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion
of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act
of collective, suicidal insanity."
-- David
Korten |
| I
see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to
tremble for the safety of my country....corporations have been enthroned and an
era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money of the country will
endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until
all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel
at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even
in the midst of war.
-- Abraham
Lincoln |  |
