As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest…

- David Korten

The current system is organized around financial values over life values. We need to shift that locus of power down to the community level because th…

- David Korten

Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes with a corresponding…

- David Korten

When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people…

- David Korten

To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions that …

- David Korten

Money is a mechanism for control.

- David Korten

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.

- David Korten

Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally th…

- David Korten

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, gove…

- David Korten