8 Quotes by Colin R. Turner

I am starting to come to the opinion that the ongoing destruction of our planet and social systems by the markets may in fact be a less urgent problem than our continued distortion of truth and perception.

Debt is a precise measure of the inefficiency of capitalism. If a market exchange system actually worked, no-one would owe anything. Debt is an error – and we’ve got trillions of it!

Law is the blunt instrument we use to hide our failure to create a properly educated, nurturing society. Give people what they want and they won’t need to steal from you. Reinforce peoples’ natural empathy and they will understand why not to hurt you. That won’t stop every crime of course – but it should stamp out around 99% of it.

The debt crisis – how much more suffering must humanity endure until we realise we are only at war with numbers?

There is no longer any logical, scientific reason not to give people free access to the things they need to live. In fact, continuing not to do so in such an enlightened age is tantamount to barbarism.

Peace will only come about through understanding and a relevant education.

For every lunatic who takes up a gun and starts shooting people, there are billions of other people who don’t, but we never hear about them. The reality is, our human experience, from a statistical point of view, is almost entirely peaceful.

You can’t demand peace, but you can reduce the reasons for war.