William Greider Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and selling to high-wage democracies. Indeed, the striking quality about global enterprises is how easily free-market capitalism puts aside its supposed values in order to do business. The conditions of human freedom do not matter to them so long as the market demand is robust. The absence of freedom, if anything, lends order and efficiency to their operations.

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  Order, Long, Democracy

• In its present terms, the global system values property over human life.

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  Life, Term, Humans

  William Greider (1998). “One World, Ready Or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

• If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others.

  William Greider

  Rights, Done, Benefits

• A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?

  William Greider

  Country, Giving, Profound

• Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.

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  Done, Tolerate, Defined

  William Greider (1998). “One World, Ready Or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

• If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.

  William Greider

  Wealth, Inflation, Protected

• Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by the present reality. A revolutionary principle is embedded in the global economic system, awaiting broader recognition: Human dignity is indivisible. Across the distances of culture and nations, across vast gulfs of wealth and poverty, even the least among us are entitled to dignity, and no justification exists or brutalizing them in the pursuit of commerce.

  William Greider

  Distance, Reality, Principles

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