“Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights.” WayShouldHumansPoliticalOrderSocialDemocracyRightsEconomicUnderstoodEnvironmentalHuman RightsAbsenceBroadsThreatenedUnjustDegradationEnvironmental Degradation Book:Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism Source: Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
“The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and selling to high-wage democracies. Indeed, the striking quality about global enterprises is how easily free-market capitalism puts aside its supposed values in order to do business. The conditions of human freedom do not matter to them so long as the market demand is robust. The absence of freedom, if anything, lends order and efficiency to their operations.” IfsHumansLongMatterFacesValuesOrderQualityMoralDemocracyEconomicConditionsDemandBehaviorLowsCapitalismAbsenceSellingOperationsEnterpriseContradictionDictatorshipEfficiencyFree MarketUnwillingRobustHuman FreedomMultinationalsFree Market Capitalism Author:William Greider
“The surest way to lose democracy is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way. No nation or culture can long survive the absence of transcendent values and absolutes.” WayLongValuesCultureNationsLosesDemocracyCitizensAbsolutesAbsenceGrantedAdvancementTranscendent Author:Carl F. H. Henry
“I had the realization that hunger is not caused by scarcity of food, it is caused by the production system and an absence of democracy throughout the world.” WorldDemocracyHungerProductionsAbsenceRealizationScarcity Author:Frances Moore Lappé