Susan George Quotes

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

There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.
Susan George

Politics, Political, Done

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.
Susan George

Rich, Place, Poor

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

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 is not fair now is that corporations pay less and less tax, which means that you and I pay more because we're rooted somewhere, they've got our address, right?
Susan George

Means, Less, Fair

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

Good, Common, Missing

What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like.
Susan George

Work, Small, Service

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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