#sing

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

#among #buying #capital #capitalism #choices

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of "the Haves" over the human rights of "the Have Nots" is inevitably called into serious question. ↗

— David Korten

#give #human #human rights #increasing #inequality

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages. ↗

— David Korten

#even #experience #faster #housing #increased

The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy. ↗

— David Korten

#brussels #citizens #decision #democracy #eu

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#i #moment #photographs #posing #released

I see myself raising my children in Europe, probably in Paris. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#europe #i #i see #myself #paris

I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I'll say to myself: 'I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn't be there.' ↗

— Charlize Theron

#because #bed #being #cabinet #cabinets

From the moment this baby came into our home, those two dogs have never been more in love. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever witnessed. People keep saying, 'Oh, you're a single mom.' I'm like, 'Actually, I'm not. I've got two boys helping.' ↗

— Charlize Theron

#baby #beautiful #beautiful thing #been #came

The largest single contributor to Iraq's security is that effort of Iraqi people who continue to step forward to join the various Iraqi security forces. ↗

— Craig L. Thomas

#contributor #effort #forces #forward #iraq

I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#become #big #brain #collective #communication