"There is no such thing as a free…" — 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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Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the…
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
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They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for…
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Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.
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I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find…
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I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions,…
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course.…
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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