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David Korten

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

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Assegid Habtewold

"If there were no women then men would still be living in the jungle."

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"Teaching the myth of creation to the students instead of teaching them the fact of evolution is nothing but an act of ultimate ignorance!"

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"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."

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"This was my first time in Govan. You could smell and taste the thick smog in the air. The Blue Triangle was a new high-tech building, and it didn't look right standing there in front of older and more historical buildings. The Blue Triangle may have looked great from the outside, but once inside, to my horror, it was full of young teenage boys and girls full of deep and dark depression."

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"Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't."

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"If you think of your own mother to be the only true mother in the world and thereby start belittling people from other mothers as bastards, that makes you a bigot and a germ on the face of earth. This is an unhealthy bias, even though in your personal mental universe it may provide you extreme comfort. This is exactly what we see in the religious fundamentalists."

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"Genius tries to conquer the world with art, with songs, with words; stupid tries to conquer it with sword, with guns, with arrows!"

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"To create an enlightened society, be a beacon of light"

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"In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer's yard."

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"As a legacy, most world leaders leave huge amounts of money to their children and only few leave an honourable surname!"

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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."

Debt

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

Capitalism

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David Korten
"My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages."

Experience

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David Korten
"So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers."

Economy

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David Korten
"Not exclusively, but the bulk of our local economy should be covered by local currencies, which is more efficient than having global currencies which lose connection with reality in the markets, shops and communities of the people."

People

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

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

Defence

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David Korten
"In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization."

Politics

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David Korten
"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."

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

Society

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