Wednesday .... 15th April 2015
will change that.”
Social responsibility that is both above & inclusive of self-interest
Karl Polanyi's 1943 book "Great Transformations" explores how the seeds were sown for the self-destruction of our present monetary system / society. Polanyi's thesis is that it was a deception. [Read more]
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjust the sails"
William Ward
"If our nation can issue a dollar bond, it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good."
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Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
~John F. Kennedy
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
~Adolph Hitler
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
~A. J. P. Taylor
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." The communist creed
"From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed." The corporatist creed
"Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace...
We must demonstrate, teach and preach, until the very foundations of our [world] are shaken.
We must work unceasingly to lift [our world] that we love to a higher destiny, to a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
"Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good by sophistry & artifice, that we are pulled down, slowly but inexorably, into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction":
Sydney Harris
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