Susan George Quotes & Sayings

“There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.”

“The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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?”

“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.”

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