3etter - To a Better World

We won’t fix the world by competing harder. But by cooperating smarter.

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

Birthright is oppression. Borders will dissolve in time.

As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.

The status quo blows. Let's build something much better.

We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.

Profit is sacred; people and planet are expendable. Time to flip the script.

We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Competition is on its way out. Cooperation is on its way in.

Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never as a means only.

"Not my problem" is how suffering consumes the world.

It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act.

Our system considers a forest to be worthless unless we can destroy it.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

Keep expanding your inner circle until it encompasses the world.

The Earth is what we all have in common.
That should be enough to take care of it.
Even when we can’t agree on anything else.

The world is huge.
Our neighbourhood is not.
If more of us acted locally, global problems would start shrinking.

What are the easiest local wins with real impact?

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

-Frederick Douglass

If you’re not outraged,
you’re not paying attention.

Justice is love with its sleeves rolled up.

"Have I done something for the common good? Then I too have benefited."

-Marcus Aurelius

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

–Desmond Tutu