Livable Quotes
41 quotes by 39 authors
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More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the ravages of industrial…
— John W. Gardner
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The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
— Richard M. Nixon
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Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart --…
— Larry Heinemann
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I see the invisible spirits, where demons still find it livable. I need a hug to hold my soul inside my body.
— Lisa Lopes
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What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
— Edward Abbey
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If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't…
— Socrates
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So-called global warming is just a secret ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make America energy-independent, clean our air & water, improve fuel-efficiency of our vehicles,…
— Chip Giller
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A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.
— Ted Kulongoski
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Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.
— Tom Scholz
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Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.
— Toni Morrison
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More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.
— Michel de Certeau
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Global warming is a justice issue. It's a justice issue because global warming is theft - theft from our own children and grand children, of…
— Fred Small
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The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic,…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We…
— Laozi
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If you design communities for automobiles, you get more automobiles. If you design them for people, you get walkable, livable communities.
— Parris Glendening
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Why not assume that our humanity, including the self-control needed for livable societies, is built into us? Does anyone truly believe that our ancestors lacked…
— Frans de Waal
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Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by…
— Havelock Ellis
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Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable....
— Rajneesh
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Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office,…
— Anne-Marie Slaughter
Who Wrote These Livable Quotes
39 authors contributed a total of 41 Livable Quotes, led by these top contributors: