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“Individual initiative alone and the mere free play of competition could never assure successful development. One must avoid the risk of increasing still more the wealth of the rich and the dominion of the strong, whilst leaving the poor in their misery and adding to the servitude of the oppressed.”

Source: On the development of peoples

“The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely by competition between members of the same species. Human beings of today are attacked by so-called manager diseases, high blood pressure, renal atrophy, gastric ulcers, and torturing neuroses: they succumb to barbarism because they have no more time for cultural interests.”

“Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.”

Source: Against method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge

“Switzerland has no competition. It sits in the middle of Europe, it has the highest technological development, it's legally safe and the political circumstances are never going to change.”

Political Middle Development Circumstances Safe Highest Europe Competition Technological Switzerland Technological Development

Author:Jean Ziegler

“Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has produced a single world in which the central problems, both military and economic, are going to require co-operation rather than continued confrontation and competition.”

World Feels Problem Technology Economic Military Fields Development Competition West Operations Confrontation Development Of Technology

Author:Denis Healey

“As industries migrate toward the Far East, the future of many Western cities will no longer lie in manufacturing products but ideas and patents. Young, mobile elites can choose where they want to live, and they can easily move, which means that cities are involved in a heated competition for the best people. Only the most attractive cities can benefit from this development.”

People Want Mean Ideas Moving Young Lying Cities Products Development Industry Involved Benefits Competition Western East Attractive Elites Mobile Manufacturing Patents Migrate

Author:Charles Landry

“And one of the worst effects was that by suppressing critical thought, it also suppressed critical thought in the field of economics and hampered the development of economics - and the country would fall back further and further in the economic competition with the West.”

Country Fall Economic Worst Effects Fields Development Economics Competition West Critical Fall Back Suppressing Economic Competition

Author:Stefan Heym

“Unless there is free and fair competition, there can't be healthy economic development. And what we have in Burma now is not an open-market economy that allows free and fair competition, but a form of colonialism makes a few people very, very wealthy. It's what you would crony capitalism.”

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Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“Capitalism is based on ruthless exploitation and competition, and leads inevitably to the development of mega monopolies.”

Development Capitalism Competition Exploitation Monopoly Ruthless Mega

Author:Kshama Sawant

“Let's be realistic about that. I think Mercedes when it started the engine [development] didn't have a budget. It spent. And then lots of teams don't and can't. I mean Red Bull, for example, that won four world championships, didn't know the word "budget", and it's a case that it hadn't got the ability to have the engine that it should have had. Because somebody else [Mercedes] had the engine, wouldn't let them have it, because they didn't want competition.”

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Author:Bernie Ecclestone

“A society which discards those who are weak and non-productive risks exaggerating the development of reason, organisation, aggression and the desire to dominate. It becomes a society without a heart, without kindness - a rational and sad society, lacking celebration, divided within itself and given to competition, rivalry and, finally, violence.”

Heart Reason Desire Given Kindness Violence Risk Development Weak Competition Rational Productive Divided Celebration Aggression Lacking Organisation Rivalry Exaggerating

Book:Man and Woman, God Made Them

Source: Man and Woman, God Made Them