The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them. — Maurice Strong Doing Copy Share Image
I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously. — Maurice Strong Convinced Copy Share Image
We're either going to save the world or no one will be saved. — Maurice Strong Inspirational Copy Share Image
I am a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology. — Maurice Strong Capitalist Copy Share Image
We're either going to save Ihe world or no one will be saved. — Maurice Strong Either Copy Share Image
Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about? — Maurice Strong Agenda 21 Copy Share Image
We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse. — Maurice Strong Civilization Copy Share Image
I've always made it clear that I do not believe that global government is either necessary or feasible. — Maurice Strong Always Copy Share Image
The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments. — Maurice Strong Charter Copy Share Image
We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance. — Maurice Strong Another chance Copy Share Image
Occupy World Street is a masterpiece which deserves to get wide circulation and commitment by world leaders. — Maurice Strong Circulation Copy Share Image
We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth. — Maurice Strong Borrowed Copy Share Image
My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people. — Maurice Strong Belief Copy Share Image
My son is the main shareholder of my company, and I help him explore some of those opportunities that are related to… — Maurice Strong About Copy Share Image
Anyone who is seriously interested in me would usually do a little more homework and realise that the extreme criticisms are almost… — Maurice Strong Homework Copy Share Image
Most of my supporters are people who actually know me. I just continue to do the best I can and I don't… — Maurice Strong Actually Copy Share Image
We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is… — Maurice Strong Developing Copy Share Image
The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not… — Maurice Strong Climate Copy Share Image
I am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I… — Maurice Strong Active Copy Share Image
Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and… — Maurice Strong Ability Copy Share Image
We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that… — Maurice Strong Approach Copy Share Image
Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class…involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods,… — Maurice Strong Affluent Copy Share Image
The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield… — Maurice Strong Assured Copy Share Image
Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current… — Maurice Strong Affluent Copy Share Image
The Earth Charter is important as an expression of the commitment of people throughout the Earth to evoke their own deepest moral,… — Maurice Strong Charter Copy Share Image
What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions… — Maurice Strong Action Copy Share Image
Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule… — Maurice Strong Action Copy Share Image
I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn. — Maurice Strong Criticism Copy Share Image
Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally — Maurice Strong Inspirational Copy Share Image
Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money. — Maurice Strong Exaggerated Copy Share Image
What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now. — Maurice Strong Development Copy Share Image
A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns. — Maurice Strong Consumption Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of each human being today to choose between the force of darkness and the force of light. We… — Maurice Strong Attitude Copy Share Image
After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In… — Maurice Strong Accounts Copy Share Image
I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO… — Maurice Strong Corporations Copy Share Image
The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we… — Maurice Strong Climate Copy Share Image
Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence… — Maurice Strong Affluence Copy Share Image
