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Susan George

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

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"Bling" is not an indication of riches. It is a product of value-based spending, to enrich the pockets of those outside of ones sphere of influence...the haves' bleeding the have-nots'."

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"So far, therefore, as the science of exchange relates to the advantage of one of the exchanging persons only, it is founded on the ignorance or incapacity of the opposite person. . . . It is therefore a science founded on nescience. . . . This science, alone of sciences, must, by all available means, promulgate and prolong its opposite nescience. . . . It is therefore peculiarly and alone science of darkness."

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"It seems only easier when money is involved."

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"The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish."

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"We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export."

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Amber Hurdle

"A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud."

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Amber Hurdle

"An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor."

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Amber Hurdle

"You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes."

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"The economic base of a nation, is the foundation of the it's secrets."

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"This unchecked spending is growing faster than our economy, faster than inflation, and far beyond our means to sustain it."

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"The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis."
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"There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things."
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"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?"
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"If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees."
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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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"I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this."
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"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."
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"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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"Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that."
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"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."
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