61 Quotes by Susan George

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.

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

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.

Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.

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?

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

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