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

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

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.
Susan George

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

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.
Susan George

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.
Susan George

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.
Susan George

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

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

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.
Susan George


If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.
Susan George

If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.
Susan George

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.
Susan George

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.
Susan George

Markets can't 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

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

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

Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.
Susan George

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

Subsidize... or lend.
Susan George