61 Quotes by Susan George

The corporate and financial worlds want to make the rules but they certainly do not want to be seen making them, or governing anyone.

I'm afraid we're stuck with Kant and his"crooked timber of humanity, from which no straight thing was ever made." If we're going to build another world, it will be from this crooked timber and no other, so we'd better start learning the necessary carpentry.

As we analyse, criticise, propose and strategise, let's never forget that we are all part of a vast mutual liberation society, that as we work to free others, they are also working to free us.

Intellectually we know all we need to know, technologically we could remedy our plight starting today, but inertia and vested interests rule.

The point of what we are all doing, wherever we are doing it, whether or not we see our actions in exactly the same framework, is to create spaces in which humans and nature can thrive, to make demands on the present system and force it to respond, to find contradictions in it and heighten them, to bend it until it either gives way or snaps.

By nature, parties must also have a position on just about everything, while movements need not because they have no pretensions to governing.

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

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 World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.