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“Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization.”
― My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
― My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
“Thrivability emerges from each of us holding the persistent intention to be generative: that is to say, to create more value than we consume.”
― Thrivability: Breaking Through to a World That Works
― Thrivability: Breaking Through to a World That Works
“The most recent estimate is that a mere 400 individuals in the United States now own more wealth than the bottom 180 million Americans taken together -- a degree of wealth concentration that is accurately, not rhetorically, properly designated medieval.”
― What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution
― What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution
“Rather than justice for all, we are evolving into a system of justice for those who can afford it. We have banks that are not only too big to fail, but too big to be held accountable.”
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“Public interest has been subordinated to private interest, and when there is no clear distinction between them, it opens the door to endless opportunities for corruption.”48”
― Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
― Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
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