Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• “Few swim in riches and the majority drown in poverty, pollution, and violence.”
• The top 1 percent of third world households account for 70 to 90 percent of all
private financial wealth and real estate ownership in their country.
• There are (were?) a famous group of pirates in Indonesia known as the Bugi. They
so terrorized early European sailors that the sailors came home and told their
children, “Behave yourselves or the Bugimen will get you.” Crazy origin of the
phrase.
• “The beacon shines on a destiny that is not always one we envision.”
• The imperialist and capitalist drive is so strong and so pervasive that it has become
the primary cause of most wars, pollution, starvation, species extinctions, and
genocides.
• How many decisions (including ones of great historical significance that impact
millions of people) are made by men and women who are driven by personal
motives rather than by a desire to do the right thing?
• This book offers a startling reminder that debt is the new form of prison. Entire
countries are handicapped by their debt to the United States and other major
players.
• We decry slavery, but our global empire enslaves more people than the Romans and
all other colonial powers before us.
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