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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 of 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 |  |
