David Korten Quotes

Communal well-being is central to human life.

I want to see unity in Minnesota.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity.

The trouble with New York today is that it's lost its balance. I love the new, greener New York, but it takes all kinds of worlds to make a World.

It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.

Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!

The idea that only a limited number of people can live in a country is profound illusion. It all depends on their cooperative and inventive power.

In order to have a large number of values in common, all members of the group must have an equitable opportunity to receive and to take from others. Members must be able to accept each other’s ideas and must be able to compromise. There must be a large variety of shared undertakings and experiences. Otherwise, the influences … educate some into masters, educate others into slaves.

There is no future for Tunisia without consensus among political parties and members of civil society.

My studio's passion is improving the public experience of cities for everyone.

I think it's certainly important that we don't have symbols in our society that are offensive to a segment and that arouse racial division.

Binaries definitely keep us from progressing. Imagine if we didn't have political parties and just had people who worked together to improve the life quality of everyone.

I heard that Hubballi-Dharwad is going to be a Smart City. But it should ensure the sense of community and love is not lost.

Portland is a place where everyone closes their eyes and crosses their fingers and hopes for a better community. They keep it small and local, and usually they think if they just make great coffee, it's the best thing for the neighborhood.

New York accepts everybody. It doesn't matter your sex, color, religion. Everybody works together to create a better life.

I am on the side of pluralistic societies, and I will do whatever I can - by the best means available and any means necessary - to protect spaces that encourage open communication between people.

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement.

It is important to integrate immigrants into society and to welcome them in the church community

Divisiveness is not good for the people.

Us as a people, we can't do it on our own. We have to understand that we're not each other's enemy. We have to stop discriminating against each other due to class and due to race and due to location or financial position.

I believe that without looking at each other as rivals or as competitors, in a democratic India, operating in the framework of an open economy, an open society has, I think, some significance for developing countries, not only in Asia but outside Asia.

To link oneself with the masses, one must act in accordance with the needs and wishes of the masses.

Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.

Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.