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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 and catastrophic…
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What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point…
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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 emphasize is…
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Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.…
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We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of…
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In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible…
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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in…
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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 national policy,…
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Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it…
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Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Social action, just like physical action, is steered by perception.
— Kurt Lewin
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science…
— Barry Commoner
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I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than…
— Irving Kristol
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The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.
— Mort Sahl
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The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church’s social action, because a full belly is not better than a…
— Matt Chandler
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Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.
— Philip Zimbardo
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Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action.
— Lowell Milken
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I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor,…
— Joan Didion
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