Susan George

“Debt is the most efficient tool of domination ever invented.”

“The people who are most disenfranchised are the ones who are most in need of a voice.”

“A private company is a totalitarian system. It's a command economy. You do what you're told or you're out.”

“Capitalism is not a system of values, it is a system of power.”

“There is no such thing as a 'free' market; it is a political construct.”

“What we call 'globalization' is a new form of empire.”

“We have to invent the future. We can't just follow the past.”

“If you are not indebted, you are not a modern citizen.”

“We have to show that the market is not a god, it's not a law of nature. It's an instrument, and it should serve the people.”

“Neoliberalism is the running of society as if it were a corporation.”

“The structural power of finance is a new kind of power, and it's one that we haven't yet learned how to fight.”

“The free market is a myth. The market is always shaped by rules, and the question is, who makes the rules and in whose interest?”

“You have to be an optimist to be a revolutionary.”

“The war against terror is a war against the poor.”

“Hunger is not a scarcity of food, it is a scarcity of justice.”