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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 |
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 |
Contrary
to the received wisdom, global markets are not unregulated. They are regulated
to produce inequality.
-- Kevin Watkins
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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."
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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
