Quotes for All
As we move toward the pluralist commonwealth, economic interventions that stabilize communities – for instance by localizing the flows of goods and services or by promoting worker ownership – not only have immediate practical benefits but provide the necessary preconditions for the growth and development of a renewed culture of sustainable democracy that can serve … Read more
Worker ownership is only one form of democratizing ownership. Gar Alperovitz
We’ve been following many forms of democratized ownership, starting with co-ops, land banks at the neighborhood level, municipal ownership and state ownership of banks – there’s a whole series of these that attempt to fill the small-scale infrastructure that can build up to a larger theoretical vision. Gar Alperovitz
In America, we need to develop communitywide structures of democratic ownership, we need to work out cooperative development, we need to work out participatory management, we need new ecological strategies developed at the local city, state, regional level. Gar Alperovitz
For 40 years, my argument has been that democratizing ownership of wealth has been the key to egalitarian society and the goals of egalitarian society. But you start at the local level, both at the workplace, community and other institutions and you reconstruct the egalitarian democratized structure as well as participatory structure. And as this … Read more
The first thing is to be willing. You must become willing to feel the discomfort that’s occurred and/or shown up. Some of it is taking ownership of your part in the situation, to clean it up and be willing to make amends. Gabrielle Bernstein
Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and took out only when she had to, using it with no feeling of ownership, as if the infrequency of her smiles had made her forget the normal way to use them. Gabriel Garcia … Read more
There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press…and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs. Eugene McCarthy
The one word I hear when people have affairs is that they feel alive. They don’t talk about the fact they’re having sex. They feel like they are engaged with their life. They describe an experience that beats back the deadness inside, which isn’t the fault of the marriage or the partner. It’s often the … Read more
You have sole ownership of your vision. And the Universe will give you what you want within your vision. What happens with most people is that they muddy their vision with “reality”. Their vision becomes full of not only what they want but what everybody else thinks about what they want, too. Your work is … Read more