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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.