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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
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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
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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
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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
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