David Korten | "If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty."

"If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty."

David Korten, American Activist

Debt, Poverty, World, Years

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"If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty."

"If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too."

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Personal Development

"Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver."

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Personal Development

"I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find a way to get on the agenda."

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Personal Development

"If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty."

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Personal Development

"Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt."

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Personal Development

"I spend my life constantly calling in 'imaginary' debts that aren't owed to me in order to avoid the 'real' debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt."

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Personal Development

"When a person's debt increases a lot, at first he will feel he wants to pay it all back, later he will think, 'Why give back?' That spoils from within. We should not sign from within."

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Personal Development

"Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt."

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Personal Development

"Debt is great source of inner unhappiness."

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Personal Development

"A borrower who doesn't returns is a beggar."

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Personal Development

"If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty."

Debt

"More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation."

Society

"It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest."

People

"Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing."

Money

"There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations."

Power

"In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of "the Haves" over the human rights of "the Have Nots" is inevitably called into serious question."

Rights

"Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy."

Capitalism

"Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way."

Power

"There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change."

Change

"Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth."

Money