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“I am starting to come to the opinion that the ongoing destruction of our planet and social systems by the markets may in fact be a less urgent problem than our continued distortion of truth and perception.”
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“There’s only one thing that stands between us and the end of capitalism: Our participation in it.”
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“The debt crisis – how much more suffering must humanity endure until we realise we are only at war with numbers?”
― Into The Open Economy: How Everything You Know About The World Is About To Change
― Into The Open Economy: How Everything You Know About The World Is About To Change
“You can’t demand peace, but you can reduce the reasons for war.”
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“Law is the blunt instrument we use to hide our failure to create a properly educated, nurturing society. Give people what they want and they won’t need to steal from you. Reinforce peoples’ natural empathy and they will understand why not to hurt you. That won’t stop every crime of course – but it should stamp out around 99% of it.”
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“Peace will only come about through understanding and a relevant education.”
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“There is no longer any logical, scientific reason not to give people free access to the things they need to live. In fact, continuing not to do so in such an enlightened age is tantamount to barbarism.”
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“For every lunatic who takes up a gun and starts shooting people, there are billions of other people who don’t, but we never hear about them. The reality is, our human experience, from a statistical point of view, is almost entirely peaceful.”
― Into The Open Economy: How Everything You Know About The World Is About To Change
― Into The Open Economy: How Everything You Know About The World Is About To Change
“Debt is a precise measure of the inefficiency of capitalism. If a market exchange system actually worked, no-one would owe anything. Debt is an error – and we’ve got trillions of it!”
― Into The Open Economy: How Everything You Know About The World Is About To Change
― Into The Open Economy: How Everything You Know About The World Is About To Change
“Consumer culture has led us to believe that to solve something, something else must be added, with little-to-no incentive to prove that the problem may be better solved by taking something away.”
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