Top 37 Quotes by Susan George

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

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

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

Markets can't think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.

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.

If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

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.

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

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