Daily Inspiration Quote by Susan George

Radicalism gets recast here as a discipline, not a personality. Susan George rejects the romance of the pure revolutionary and the complacency of the incrementalist in the same breath: she wants structural change, but she’s not selling a fantasy of sudden rupture. “Reformist” signals the gritty arena where policy, institutions, and budgets actually move; “radical” insists the destination isn’t merely a kinder version of the status quo. The friction between those two words is the point. It’s a rhetorical bridge for people who crave moral clarity but have been burned by grand slogans.

The line that does the real work is “between where we are and where I want to go there’s a great deal of work.” It shifts politics from spectacle to labor. George frames change as cumulative and engineered, implying coalition-building, endurance, and the unglamorous fight over mechanisms. That’s activist realism: you can hate the system and still learn its wiring.

“I won’t see the end of this” adds a sober, almost stoic subtext. It refuses the savior narrative and replaces it with intergenerational responsibility. The admission of mortality isn’t defeatist; it’s an antidote to burnout and purity tests. It says: act without the dopamine hit of closure. In the post-1968 landscape George comes out of - the long hangover of failed utopias, the rise of neoliberal governance, the global scale of debt and inequality - this is a strategy for staying in the fight: radical goals, reformist methods, and a time horizon that outlasts any single career or victory.