"Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of……" — Susan George
"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."
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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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The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.
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This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich…
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I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your…
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In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans,…
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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his…
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In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
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I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm…
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build…
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
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I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.
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In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.
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