Jean Ziegler famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies
-- Jean Ziegler

#Hierarchy #Corporations #Strategy
Agrofuel is a crime against humanity and I believe there should be a moratorium put in place until there is some way to eradicate the many problems it creates.
-- Jean Ziegler

#Believe #Humanity #Way
A child who dies from hunger is a murdered child.
-- Jean Ziegler

#Children #Hunger
I'm against the theory of the multinational corporations who say if you are against hunger you must be for GMO. That's wrong, there is plenty of natural, normal good food in the world to nourish the double of humanity. There is absolutely no justification to produce genetically modified food except the profit motive and the domination of the multinational corporations.
-- Jean Ziegler

#Gmos #Humanity #World
The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the world on democracy. It's an unbelievable show of self-satisfaction and arrogance.
-- Jean Ziegler

#Rocks #Self #Class
Switzerland has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, the strongest currency and the largest financial center for foreign assets. And we're a small country with no natural resources. Switzerland is the world capital of dealing in stolen goods.
-- Jean Ziegler

#Country #Switzerland #Income
Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers in the Third World and organized crime.
-- Jean Ziegler

#Country #Blood #Switzerland
1 billion people are permanently and seriously malnourished. Every five seconds, a child dies.
-- Jean Ziegler

#Children #People #Billions
Switzerland has no competition. It sits in the middle of Europe, it has the highest technological development, it's legally safe and the political circumstances are never going to change.
-- Jean Ziegler

#Europe #Technological Development #Political

If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not always follow this commandment.)
Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.
Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.
The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
Let's execute along this strategy, but know that we'll probably get some of this wrong, so be open to changing it.
During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.
The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.

Jean Ziegler famous quotes

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