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Letter "W" » William Greider Quotes
«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.»
Author: William Greider
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«Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.»
Author: William Greider
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«The juggernaut -- the best and biggest military force in the world -- lumbers on, doing what it knows how to do best. It is unwilling to rethink its future, unable to let go of the past. Like the shark, it must keep feeding, only now it is feeding on itself.»
Author: William Greider
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«The US financial position is rapidly deteriorating, due mainly to America's persistent and growing trade deficit. US ambitions to run the world, in other words, are heavily mortgaged. Like any debtor who borrows more year after year with no plausible way to reverse the trend, a nation sinking deeper into debt enters into an adverse power relationship with its creditors -- greater and greater dependency.»
Author: William Greider
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«Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others»
«Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.»
Author: William Greider
«Modern Americans are remarkably capable people, skillful and inventive in many ways, but they are not so good at talking to one another across their vast differences of social class and economic status.»
Author: William Greider
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