At times history and fate meet at a single place to shape a turning-point in mans unending search for freedom.
~ Lyndon Johnson

NEW ECONOMIC MODEL NEEDED

What an astounding thing it is to watch a civilization destroy its self because it is unable to re-examine the validity, under totally new circumstances, of an economic ideology.
~ Sir James Goldsmith

The powerlessness we feel is not a sign of personal failings, but reflects the incapacities of our institutions. We need to reconstruct those we have, or create new ones, for globalization is not incidental to our lives; it is the way we live now.
~ Anthony Giddens

Debt is a direct expression of the unjust global economic order which is the result of a long history of slavery, exploitation and terms of trade which are detrimental to the poor.
~ Sir Alan Walters,

The central challenge we face today is to ensure that globalization becomes a positive force for all the worlds people, instead of leaving billions behind.
~ Kofi Anan

CALL TO ACTION

To provide a comfortable subsistence for the poor is most certainly a duty highly obligatory upon every person in whom the traces of moral virtue are not quit obliterated.
~ William Bailey

Millions of people around the world are waiting to see whether globalization can be reformed so that its benefits can be more widely shared.  To succeed our voices must be raised, we cannot, we should not, stand idly by.
~ Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents

In a globalized world, one can no longer afford not to adapt .
~ Michael Camdessus, former IMF head in Washington

To address poverty, economic growth is not a option: it is a necessity.
~ Mahbub Haq, former VP of the World Bank

The lesson for the twenty-first century is that the fight for security, prosperity and justice can no longer be won on any one nations ground, it is International. It requires courage and leadership.
~ Will Hutton

INTERNET MARKET ACCESS IS THE SOLUTION

Adjustment is the necessary first step on the road to sustainable, poverty reducing growth. Even incomplete adjustment can put countries back on the road to development.
~ International Bank for Reconstruction & Development -1994

Africa does need debt relief from its crushing international debt burden. But aid and debt relief can only go so far. We are asking for the opportunity to compete, to sell our goods in global markets; in short we want to trade our way out of poverty.
~ Pres. Yoweri Musuveni of Uganda

The electromagnetic discoveries have recreated the simultaneous filed in all human affairs so that the human family now exists under conditions of a global village.
~ Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy

There is something thrilling about the Internet It almost doesnt matter what anyone says. Its more the thrill of knowing youre in touch with people laterally, rather than through a filter of some kind.
~ Brian Eno

Before national identity, before local affiliation, before any of this comes the commitment to a single unified global mission.
~ Kenichi Ohmae, The Borderless World: Power and Strategy in the Interlinked Economy

The international financial system has been shaped to extend US financial and political power, not to promote the world public good. And that is what it has done.
~ Will Hutton, The World Were in

We can now live, not just amphibiously, in divided and distinguished worlds, but pluralistically in many worlds and cultures simultaneously.
~ Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy

""There is no law that says goods and services must be paid for with Federal Reserve notes. Parties entering into a transaction can establish any medium of exchange that is agreed upon."
~ Andrew Williams, a spokesman for the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C.:

I believe that the world has moved closer to oneness and more people see each other as one with the other It is is possible to have new thoughts and new common values for human and all other forms of life.
~ Wangam Maathai, Can the Environment be Saved without a Radical New Approach to World Development?

The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It demands a end to poverty and racial injustice.
~ Lyndon Johnson

NATURAL LAW
There is, therefore only a single categorical imperative and it is this: act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law.
~ Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters; pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as determine what we shall do.
~ Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation

All the diversity of created things, each in its place and time, could only have arisen from the ideas and the will of a necessarily existing being.
~ Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them; the starry heavens above me, and the moral law within me.
~ Kant, A Critique of Practical Reason

In nature there is wisdom, system and consistency. For having, in the natural history of this earth, seen a succession of worlds, we may from this conclude that there is a system in nature. If the succession of the worlds is established in the system of nature, it is vain to look for any thing higher in the origin of the earth.
~ James Hutton, Theory of the Earth

At times history and fate meet at a single place to shape a turning-point in mans unending search for freedom.
~ Lyndon Johnson

NEW ECONOMIC MODEL NEEDED

What an astounding thing it is to watch a civilization destroy its self because it is unable to re-examine the validity, under totally new circumstances, of an economic ideology.
~ Sir James Goldsmith

The powerlessness we feel is not a sign of personal failings, but reflects the incapacities of our institutions. We need to reconstruct those we have, or create new ones, for globalization is not incidental to our lives; it is the way we live now.
~ Anthony Giddens

Debt is a direct expression of the unjust global economic order which is the result of a long history of slavery, exploitation and terms of trade which are detrimental to the poor.
~ Sir Alan Walters,

The central challenge we face today is to ensure that globalization becomes a positive force for all the worlds people, instead of leaving billions behind.
~ Kofi Anan

CALL TO ACTION

To provide a comfortable subsistence for the poor is most certainly a duty highly obligatory upon every person in whom the traces of moral virtue are not quit obliterated.
~ William Bailey

Millions of people around the world are waiting to see whether globalization can be reformed so that its benefits can be more widely shared.  To succeed our voices must be raised, we cannot, we should not, stand idly by.
~ Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents

In a globalized world, one can no longer afford not to adapt .
~ Michael Camdessus, former IMF head in Washington

To address poverty, economic growth is not a option: it is a necessity.
~ Mahbub Haq, former VP of the World Bank

The lesson for the twenty-first century is that the fight for security, prosperity and justice can no longer be won on any one nations ground, it is International. It requires courage and leadership.
~ Will Hutton

INTERNET MARKET ACCESS IS THE SOLUTION

Adjustment is the necessary first step on the road to sustainable, poverty reducing growth. Even incomplete adjustment can put countries back on the road to development.
~ International Bank for Reconstruction & Development -1994

Africa does need debt relief from its crushing international debt burden. But aid and debt relief can only go so far. We are asking for the opportunity to compete, to sell our goods in global markets; in short we want to trade our way out of poverty.
~ Pres. Yoweri Musuveni of Uganda

The electromagnetic discoveries have recreated the simultaneous filed in all human affairs so that the human family now exists under conditions of a global village.
~ Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy

There is something thrilling about the Internet It almost doesnt matter what anyone says. Its more the thrill of knowing youre in touch with people laterally, rather than through a filter of some kind.
~ Brian Eno

Before national identity, before local affiliation, before any of this comes the commitment to a single unified global mission.
~ Kenichi Ohmae, The Borderless World: Power and Strategy in the Interlinked Economy

The international financial system has been shaped to extend US financial and political power, not to promote the world public good. And that is what it has done.
~ Will Hutton, The World Were in

We can now live, not just amphibiously, in divided and distinguished worlds, but pluralistically in many worlds and cultures simultaneously.
~ Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy

""There is no law that says goods and services must be paid for with Federal Reserve notes. Parties entering into a transaction can establish any medium of exchange that is agreed upon."
~ Andrew Williams, a spokesman for the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C.:

I believe that the world has moved closer to oneness and more people see each other as one with the other It is is possible to have new thoughts and new common values for human and all other forms of life.
~ Wangam Maathai, Can the Environment be Saved without a Radical New Approach to World Development?

The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It demands a end to poverty and racial injustice.
~ Lyndon Johnson

NATURAL LAW
There is, therefore only a single categorical imperative and it is this: act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law.
~ Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters; pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as determine what we shall do.
~ Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation

All the diversity of created things, each in its place and time, could only have arisen from the ideas and the will of a necessarily existing being.
~ Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them; the starry heavens above me, and the moral law within me.
~ Kant, A Critique of Practical Reason

In nature there is wisdom, system and consistency. For having, in the natural history of this earth, seen a succession of worlds, we may from this conclude that there is a system in nature. If the succession of the worlds is established in the system of nature, it is vain to look for any thing higher in the origin of the earth.
~ James Hutton, Theory of the Earth