Germaine Greer Quotes

We cannot change the political system, we cannot change the economic system, we cannot change the social system, until the people control the land, and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the meaning and the intention of humanity.

There is complete disdain for all that exists .... History, society, and the economics of present institutions are all minor issues in choosing a reform program ...

Capitalism had been more revolutionary than any previous social system. It had swept away without scruples old institutions and modes of thought, if they were found to stand in its way.

Our system of market capitalism wasn't handed down, in perfect form, on stone tablets. We wrote the rules. We broke them. And we can fix them.

I am not an economist... I am not a business technician. I am a revolutionary, and I do what is right for an economic revolutionary.

You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.

You cannot get a new economy without a new society.

The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn't really working, and this is the right time for us to undo things and build them in a new way.

The only factor that poses a genuine challenge to the current order is the willingness of human beings to reject the injustice and irrationality of this economy, and stand up for something better. Capitalism will not fall-rather, it must be pushed.

The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed.

I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy.

Only slowly did it dawn on us that the whole world structure and order that we had inherited was gone.

We shall either adopt a plan which will meet the problem of unemployment under capitalism or a plan will be adopted for us which will operate without capitalism.

The people weren't quite ready for a socialist production system.

The economy of tomorrow is unlikely to look much like that of yesterday.

When capitalism changes, so must socialism.

It [her revolutionary plan to radically change the economic structure] must be able to accomplish its purposes without resorting to revolution, without violence, without seeking to overturn established political governments, without making any attack or even reflecting in any adverse way upon the Church, or Religion, or the Law, or upon the Family, or Marriage, or Private Property or the accumulation of Wealth in any amounts.

What strikes me - we're apparently at the mercy of an economic system that will never work and the big question is, how do we change it, not how do we put up with it.

Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the boss which must be changed?.

If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed

For years, I labored with the idea of reforming the existing institutions in the South, a little change here, a little change there. Now I feel quite differently. I think you've got to have a reconstruction of the entire system, a revolution of values.

What is applicable is to understand that first of all China has undergone a huge revolution in the last years. Anyone who saw China as I did in 1971 - and for that matter even in 1979, because not much had changed between 1971 and 1979 - and sees China today, knows one is in a different economic system.

Reversing structural problems in our economy that have been building up for two decades, that was gonna take time. It was gonna take more than a year. It was gonna take more than two years. It was gonna take more than one term. Probably takes more than one president.

While I haven't read economist Robin Hahnel's work, replacing capitalism would be at the very bottom of my list of priorities - to be considered only after everything else had been tried. Improving our capitalistic system however, is at the top of my list and is of course the major theme of "The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism."

A 'mixed economy' is a society in the process of committing suicide.