Best Maurice Strong Quotes
- We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse. Civilization
- Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be… Ago
- What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now. Agenda
- Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a… Accept
- If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into… Asset
- A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns. Consumption
- Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money. Been
- The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not… Ago
- We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth. Borrowed
- I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I… Always Come
- I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large… Attention
- I've got used to criticisms and, naturally, I try to make sure I don't listen to the more extreme ones because most of the people… Criticism
- Toyota was the first to put a commercial fuel cell powered car on the road, and I have no doubt that Toyota will continue to… Car
- I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth… Board
- I am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I don't have any… Active
- I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put… Annan
- In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they… Addition
- Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by… Accepted
- Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still… Ability
- Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of… Any
- The Earth Charter is important as an expression of the commitment of people throughout the Earth to evoke their own deepest moral, spiritual and ethical… Charter
- Anyone who is seriously interested in me would usually do a little more homework and realise that the extreme criticisms are almost exclusively ideologically based. Almost Exclusively
- The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them. Tendency
- We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50… Condition
- We're either going to save Ihe world or no one will be saved. Either Going