Susan George Quotes

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

Democracy, Same, Problem

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

Education, Fight, Real

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

Powerful, Control, Keep

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

Society, Live, Children

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

Work, Time, Food

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.
Susan George

Tell, Accounting, National

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

Rich, Status, Clearly

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

Children, Saying, Pay

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

Done, Democracy, Seen

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

Work, Great, End

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

Society, Economy, Lead

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

Down, Matter, Trees

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

Politics, Young, Getting

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

Done, Off, Name

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

Around, Earth, Land

Subsidize... or lend.
Susan George

Lend, Subsidize

The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.
Susan George

Control, United, Population

The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.
Susan George

Crisis, Debt, Biggest

The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.
Susan George

Work, Good, Political

There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.
Susan George

Production, Contribute

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

Change, Human, Suffering

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.
Susan George

Society, Trying, Ideas

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.
Susan George

Change, Worry, Measure

What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.
Susan George

Good, Common, Missing

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.
Susan George

Logic, Capitalism, Profitable

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Nationality: American

Born: July 26, 1950

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