Quotes by Susan George

Susan George

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.

Rich

Want

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

Children

Education

Recovery

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it’s much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

Administration

Army

Powerful

Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We’ve seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.

Democracy

Done

International

Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn’t collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded.

Able

Children

Employment

How do we get democracy at the international level? That’s our problem. and it’s essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.

Democracy

Needs

People

I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let’s get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don’t want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water.

Book

Fighting

Thinking

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.

Eggs

Issues

Years

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.

Carbon

Strong

Would Be

I’m a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there’s a great deal of work, and I won’t see the end of this.

Ends

Radical

Want

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Quotes by Susan George

Susan George

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it’s much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We’ve seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.

Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn’t collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded.

How do we get democracy at the international level? That’s our problem. and it’s essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.

I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let’s get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don’t want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water.

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.

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.

I’m a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there’s a great deal of work, and I won’t see the end of this.

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