"In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless……" — Barry Commoner
"In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced."
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50 Quotes by Barry Commoner
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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common…
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What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and…
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to…
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Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a…
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We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable…
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In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the…
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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the…
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By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a…
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Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which…
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More Degradation Quotes
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
— Abu Bakr
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Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a…
— Warren Christopher
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I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the…
— Charles Dickens
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Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression.
— Malcolm X
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The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very…
— Lucretia Mott
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We entered a synagogue which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. Either these…
— George S. Patton
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To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Muhammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding…
— George S. Patton
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... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable…
— Philip Zimbardo
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However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be…
— Cesar Chavez
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Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever…
— Joseph Conrad
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Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be…
— Sigmund Freud
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Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.
— George Bernard Shaw
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