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    Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

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    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.

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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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    How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.

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    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.

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    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.

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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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    I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol.

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    Markets cant 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.

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    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.

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

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

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    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.

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

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

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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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    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.

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

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    What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.

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

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    Whats immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Intellectually we know all we need to know, technologically we could remedy our plight starting today, but inertia and vested interests rule.

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    The corporate and financial worlds want to make the rules but they certainly do not want to be seen making them, or governing anyone.

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    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.