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Susan George Quotes
As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status. - Susan George Quotes
Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children. - Susan George Quotes
Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, its much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration. - Susan George Quotes
Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. Weve seen only the tiniest beginnings of that. - Susan George Quotes
Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isnt collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded. - Susan George Quotes
How do we get democracy at the international level? Thats our problem. and its essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally. - Susan George Quotes
I have never subscribed to authoritarianism, and I think if the 21st century is going to be authoritarian then were all done for. - Susan George Quotes
I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, lets get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I dont want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water. - Susan George Quotes
I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later. - Susan George Quotes
I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol. - Susan George Quotes
Im a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go theres a great deal of work, and I wont see the end of this. - Susan George Quotes
If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster. - Susan George Quotes
If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. Its Europe, its Australia, its the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job. - Susan George Quotes
If you cut down a forest, it doesnt matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees. - Susan George Quotes
It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics. - Susan George Quotes
It was always the girls who were not put in school because you try to educate the boy because he might be more valuable to the family in the future. - Susan George Quotes
Markets cant think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace. - Susan George Quotes
Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing. - Susan George Quotes
Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy. - Susan George Quotes
Only around 2% of the earths surface is cultivatable land. - Susan George Quotes
Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt. - Susan George Quotes
Subsidize... or lend. - Susan George Quotes
The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction. - Susan George Quotes
The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis. - Susan George Quotes
The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too. - Susan George Quotes
The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years. - Susan George Quotes
The question is not only what is grown but what its used for. Theres not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat. - Susan George Quotes
The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare? - Susan George Quotes
There are a lot of people who dont contribute anything to consumption and production. - Susan George Quotes
There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things. - Susan George Quotes
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