Martin Khor famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Globilization in its current form cannot deliver the benefits expected of it. Civil society, particularly in developing countries, must ensure that it does.
-- Martin Khor

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Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.
Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.
It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, â€˜We want it now, in our lifetime.â€™ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.
Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.
Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
We have declared a bitter war against the principle of democracy and all those who seek to enact it.
If we create networks with the sole intention of getting something, we wonâ€™t succeed. We canâ€™t pursue the benefits of networks; the benefits ensue from investments in meaningful activities and relationships.
When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and he should go to the State about it.

Martin Khor famous quotes

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