Susan George Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?”

“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.”

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

“Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.”

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

“What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.”

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

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

“If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.”

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