"If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster."
― Susan George
Topic(s):
Society
More From Susan George
- "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."
- "The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years."
- "Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn’t collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded."
More In Society
- "We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn’t forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great."― Armstrong Williams
- "The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves."― Arnold J. Toynbee
- "Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it."― Emile M. Cioran