“I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit, and I see a link between that process and the stock-market frenzy which scorns long-term investments-genuine savings-in favor of quick turnovers and speculative bubbles whose inevitable bursting leaves insiders with stuffed pockets and millions of small stockholders, pensioners, and employees out of work, out of luck, and out of hope.” LongProcessTermMillionsSacrificeTearsMountainRiversLuckInvestmentEnvironmentalProfitWork OutFavorsGenuineSavingInevitableLong TermReportsEmployeePocketsLinksValleysBubblesSustainabilityAssaultCoalScornShort TermSavingsDumpBurstingFrenzyMiningInsidersTurnoverCoal MiningHealth And Life Author:Bill Moyers
“In the early 1970s, Milton Friedman argued that corporations should not be socially responsible because they had no mandate to be; they existed to make money, not to be charitable institutions. But in the economy of the 21st century, corporations cannot be socially responsible, if social responsibility is understood to mean sacrificing profits for the sake of some perceived social good. That's because competition has become so much more intense.” IfsShouldMeanSocialBusinessResponsibilityEconomySacrificeCenturyUnderstoodResponsibleInstitutionsCompetitionSakeProfitIntenseMaking MoneyCorporations21st CenturySocial ResponsibilityMandatesCharitableMiltonSocial Good Author:Robert Reich
“Capitalism offers nothing but frustrations and rebuffs to those who wish - because of claimed superiority of intelligence, birth, credentials, or ideals - to get without giving, to take without risking, to profit without sacrifice, to be exalted without humbling themselves to understand others and meet their needs.” NeedsGivingWishSacrificeBirthOffersCapitalismIdealsProfitFrustrationSuperiorityExaltedHumblingCredentialsWithout SacrificeRebuff Book:The Spirit of Enterprise Source: The Spirit of Enterprise
“If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It's management's risk and management's responsibility. Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?” IfsShouldFacesSufferingResponsibilityCompanyRiskSacrificeManagementLaysProfitGuiltyEmployeeRecessionsNot Guilty Author:Akio Morita
“The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for cruelty to our own kind.” KindProcessSacrificePatternsProfitCrueltyFactoriesFarmingDecencyRecklessnessFactory Farming Author:Jonathan Kozol
“Science is better paid than at any time in the past. The results of this pay have been to attract into science many of those for whom the pay is the first consideration, and who scorn to sacrifice immediate profit for the freedom of development of their own concept. Moreover, this inner development, important and indispensable as it may be to the world of science in the future, generally does not have the tendency to put a single cent into the pockets of their employers.” WorldFirstsMayDoeHas BeensImportantPastResultsPaySacrificeDevelopmentConceptsPaidProfitTendenciesConsiderationPocketsCentsIndispensableScornEmployers Author:Norbert Wiener
“True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art and science will fulfil his vocation, not for profit but with self- sacrifice; and the second, an external sign, his productions will be intelligible to all the people whose welfare he has in view.” PeopleFirstsArtTwoSelfViewsSacrificeMarkProfitProductionsWelfareInwardVocationSelf SacrificeArt And Science Book:On the Significance of Science and Art Source: On the Significance of Science and Art
“In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.” SelfSeemsCultureSacrificeProfitNobleSelf SacrificeTrue God Author:Starhawk