David Korten Quotes About Capitalism

Quotes about: Capitalism

• To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions that honor life, serve life's needs, and restore money to its proper role as servant. I believe we are in fact being called to take a step to a new level of species consciousness and function.

  David Korten

  Life, Inspiring, Money

• Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.

  David Korten

  Democracy, Way, Communism

• Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

  David Korten

  Enemy, Democracy, Capitalism

  "Globalization and After". Book edited by Samir Dasgupta and Ray Kiely, 2006.

• Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To destroy it for money, a simple number with no intrinsic value, is an act of collective insanity - which makes capitalism a mental, as well as physical pathology.

  David Korten

  Inspiring, Real, Simple

• Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.

  David Korten

  Hands, People, Choices

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