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"We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create."
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"Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia."
"Clothes are a homeless man's home."
"No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us."
"If you are financially poor, it is because you have not converted your time into any product."
"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."
"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."
"Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor."
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"We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital."
"And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations."
"That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems."
"Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to."
"Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to more often because the owners live there and they have to show their face in town, and their kids play with other kids."
"I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing."
"We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time."
"People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies."
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