#thing

I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water. ↗

— Susan George

#always #around #because #book #bottle

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. ↗

— Susan George

#countries #developed #developing #europe #got

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics. ↗

— Susan George

#getting #into #now #people #politics

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. ↗

— Susan George

#anything #beyond #got #important #important 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. ↗

— Susan George

#acquisitions #actually #called #course #downsizing

The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat. ↗

— Susan George

#buy #contrary #dietary #first #first thing

There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production. ↗

— Susan George

#consumption #contribute #lot #people #production

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

— Susan George

#bring #change #change things #degree #going

There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency. ↗

— Susan George

#anything #been #coming #done #feel

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. ↗

— Susan George

#accounts #arithmetic #because #crude #know