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."

"Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions."

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Personal Development

"We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid."

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Personal Development

"King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France."

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Personal Development

"A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves."

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Personal Development

"There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing."

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Personal Development

"The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined."

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Personal Development

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

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Personal Development

"Debt is great source of inner unhappiness."

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Personal Development

"Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate."

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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

"The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy."

Decision-Making

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

Capitalism

"The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system."

Defence

"And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics."

Control

"Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society."

Society

"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

"My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy."

Economy

"If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining."

Economy

"Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay."

Growth

"But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living."

Economy