"No action is without its side effects." — Barry Commoner
"No action is without its side effects."
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Barry Commoner
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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 Action Quotes
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
— Hannah Arendt
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
— Hannah Arendt
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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