Kevin Watkins famous quotes

Contrary to the received wisdom, global markets are not unregulated. They are regulated to produce inequality.
-- Kevin Watkins

#Globalization #Produce #Inequality

The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty.
-- Kevin Watkins

#Children #Men #Fellow Man

We want a comprehensive package that covers export subsidies, tariffs and overall levels of support. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making central to his summit speech that he wants to abolish all export subsidies. It is up to him to push the European Union in that direction, and the U.S. needs to reciprocate.
-- Kevin Watkins

#Support #Needs #Levels

So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.

The non-commutativity of the underlying process produces an ontological complementarity. This must be contrasted to Bohr's epistemological complementarity.

Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.

The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal to his own interests will he produce a work of distinction.

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

You have to be invited to the party. You have to be invited to work, which is weird. That can be frustrating. But gender inequality is pretty similar through almost every industry, unfortunately.

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient ...

If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.