"I was recently looking at what they can……" — Susan George
"I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol."
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37 Quotes by Susan George
Susan George has 37 quotes on this site.
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How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced…
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I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they…
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We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the…
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The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.
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The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.
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There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation…
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We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.
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As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.
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Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions…
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What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development,…
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Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during…
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The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.
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More Automobiles Quotes
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Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.
— Erma Bombeck
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I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.
— Albert Einstein
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I'm not so sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said, "With all their speed forward they may be a step…
— Booth Tarkington
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Every mode of transport that we use - whether it's planes, trains, automobiles, bikes, horses - is reusable, but not…
— Elon Musk
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A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build…
— Andrew Joseph Galambos
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The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of…
— Helen Keller
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It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive.…
— John Harvey Kellogg
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America is addicted to oil...We must also change how we power our automobiles. We will increase our research in better…
— George W. Bush
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People who want to see the beauty of nature from motorboats and automobiles would obviously be just as pleased, and…
— Wendell Berry
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The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and…
— Bertrand Russell
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Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or…
— Archibald MacLeish
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