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“كثيراً ما أفكر في كيف كان تاريخ القرن العشرين سيتغير تغييراً جذرياً لو أن بلدان الأوبك - وأغلبها بلدان إسلامية - قد أخذت دينها على محمل الجد ورفضت أن تودع أموالها في البنوك الغربية.”
― Susan George, Another World Is Possible, If...

“Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.”
― Susan George

“كل من يقول لك ان العلوم الإجتماعية مثل الإقتصاد والسوسيولوجيا والعلوم السياسية هي علوم موضوعية فهو إما كاذب أو ساذج.”
― Susan George, Another World Is Possible, If...

“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

“We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.”
― Susan George

“As we analyse, criticise, propose and strategise, let's never forget that we are all part of a vast mutual liberation society, that as we work to free others, they are also working to free us.”
― Susan George, Another World Is Possible, If...

“The point of what we are all doing, wherever we are doing it, whether or not we see our actions in exactly the same framework, is to create spaces in which humans and nature can thrive, to make demands on the present system and force it to respond, to find contradictions in it and heighten them, to bend it until it either gives way or snaps.”
― Susan George

“I'm afraid we're stuck with Kant and his"crooked timber of humanity, from which no straight thing was ever made." If we're going to build another world, it will be from this crooked timber and no other, so we'd better start learning the necessary carpentry.”
― Susan George, Another World Is Possible, If...

“The corporate and financial worlds want to make the rules but they certainly do not want to be seen making them, or governing anyone.”
― Susan George, Another World Is Possible, If...

“Those who genuinely want to help the movement should study the rich and powerful, not the poor and powerless...The poor and powerless already know what is wrong with their lives and those who want to help them should analyse the forces that keep them where they are. Better a sociology of the Pentagon or the Houston country club than of single mothers or inner-city gangs.”
― Susan George, Another World Is Possible, If...

“Intellectually we know all we need to know, technologically we could remedy our plight starting today, but inertia and vested interests rule.”
― Susan George, Another World Is Possible, If...

“By nature, parties must also have a position on just about everything, while movements need not because they have no pretensions to governing.”
― Susan George, Another World Is Possible, If...