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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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" 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? "

" 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. "

" We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas. "

" 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. "

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

" What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet. "

" What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees. "

" 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. "

" What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster. "

" 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. "

" The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis. "

" Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land. "

" 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. "

" The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction. "

" Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that. "

" 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. "

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

" This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process. "

" The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare? "

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

" 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. "

" Subsidize... or lend. "

" 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. "