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...Any
definition of a culture of peace must address the
problem of achieving justice for communities and individuals
who do not have the means to compete or cope without
structured assistance and compassionate help.
--
Mahnaz Afkhami
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Fierce
national competition over water resources has prompted
fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent
conflict.
-- Kofi
Annan
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Instead
of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women
should try and give their best qualities to men - bring
them softness, teach them how to cry.
--Joan
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"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws
of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human
beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy."
~ Wendell
Berry
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We
must look towards societies that set a high value
on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore
handle conflicts by nonviolent means. We can see how
child rearing patterns produce nurturing adult behaviors.”
-- Elise
Boulding
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In
any institution-factory, university, health center,
or whatever-there are a variety of interests that
ought to be represented in decision-making: the work
force itself, the community in which it is located,
users of its products or services, institutions that
compete for the same resources. These interests should
be directly represented in democratic structures that
displace and eliminate private ownership of the means
of production or resources, an anachronism with no
legitimacy.
-- Noam
Chomsky
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I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy
to have competition in the media, a lot of competition,
and we seem to be moving away from that.
-- Walter
Cronkite
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"This
crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil
of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers
from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude
is inculcated into the student, who is trained to
worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his
future."
-- Albert
Einstein
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We
should know that only replacing the economics of competition
and greed with the economics of equitable cooperation
will guarantee a globalization that takes advantage
of potential efficiency gains in ways that also promote
environmental protection, international equity, economic
democracy, and variety.
-- Robin Hahnel |
“A
state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes
a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary
rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations.
The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of
public competition for power and its public exercise
opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any
way it sees fit. A state that does not hesitate to lie
to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other
states.”
-- Vaclav
Havel |
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"The future belongs to those who understand that
doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous,
and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive."
~ Paul
Hawken
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When
people, land, and community are as one, all three
members prosper; when they relate not as members but
as competing interests, all three are exploited. By
consulting Nature as the source and measure of that
membership, The Land Institute seeks to develop an
agriculture that will save soil from being lost or
poisoned while promoting a community life at once
prosperous and enduring."
-- Wes
Jackson
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"Solar
is cost effective right now. When you consider the cost
to our health from air pollution, solar is just as competitive
as any other energy source."
~ Thomas P. Kay |
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We are not afraid to entrust the American people
with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies,
and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid
to let its people judge the truth and falsehood
in an open market is a nation that is afraid of
its people.
-- John
F. Kennedy
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"But
once we concede that people do care about status,
it necessarily follows that the status competition
that makes people buy expensive consumer goods in
order to impress other people constitutes a failure
of the market economy - a failure as real as traffic
congestion, or pollution, or any other activity in
which the individual pursuit of self-interest leads
to a collectively bad outcome. Suppose that we could
somehow agree to stop competing over who has the fanciest
car; everyone could then work a bit less, spend more
time with their families, and raise the sum total
of human happiness. Or to put it a bit differently,
Americans (or at least the top few percent of the
income distribution) have gotten into a sort of arms
race of conspicuous consumption that, like most arms
races, consumes huge quantities of resources yet in
the end changes little."
~ Paul
Krugman
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Utilities
used deregulation to effect a series of mergers limiting
competition. In order to accelerate profits, cost
cutting ensued, involving the layoff of thousands
of utility company employees, including some who were
responsible for maintenance of generation, transmission,
and distribution systems. A number of investor-owned
utilities stopped investing in the maintenance and
repair of their own equipment, and, instead, cut costs
to enhance the value of their stock rather than spending
money to enhance the value of their service.
-- Dennis
Kucinich
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When
you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare
or compete, everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
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A spiritual sensibility encourages us to see ourselves
as part of the fundamental unity of all being. If
the thrust of the market ethos has been to foster
a competitive individualism, a major thrust of many
traditional religious and spiritual sensibilities
has been to help us see our connection with all other
human beings.
-- Michael
Lerner
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"The
problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the
worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving,
opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward
and often much punishment--or at least much handicap--to
honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work,
love of justice, and a concern for those in need."
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Struggle
and competition are stimulating, but when they degenerate
into conflict it is usually both destructive and disruptive.
The aim of political institutions like the United
Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict
and to make it possible for nations to stay on the
right side of that line…
-- Javier
Perez de Cuellar
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For
love of domination we must substitute equality;
for love of victory we must substitute justice;
for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for
competition we must substitute cooperation. We must
learn to think of the human race as one family.
-- Bertrand
Russell
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"Advertising
as the printed form of selling would seem . . .
ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means
of increasing legitimate human wants,
as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution
of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress."
-- Daniel Starch, The Principles of Advertising, 1923
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