Sustainability Quotes
140 quotes by 123 authors
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Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
— Dante Alighieri
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When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world…
— William J. Clinton
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Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
— Kofi Annan
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The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that…
— Pete Wilson
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The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production…
— Vandana Shiva
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Our vision of interconnectedness resonates with new networks of world citizens in nongovernmental organizations linking from numberless centers of energy, expressing the emergence of a…
— Dennis Kucinich
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The planetary phase of history has begun, but the future shape of global society remains profoundly uncertain. Though perhaps improbable, a shift toward a planetary…
— Paul Raskin
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Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities.
— Gustav Nossal
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Historically the Department of Education hasn't been doing enough to drive the sustainability movement, and today, I promise that we will be a committed partner…
— Arne Duncan
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Either the Earth System would undergo major phase transitions as a result of unchecked human pressure on nature's capacities and resources or a "Great Transformation"…
— Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
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We need to see the connection between global warring and global warming, and it's oil. Sustainability is the path to peace.
— Dennis Kucinich
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The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained
— Albert Allen Bartlett
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Sustainability is growth based on forms and processes of development that do not undermine the integrity of the environment on which they depend
— Jim MacNeill
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Sustainability is treating ourselves and our environment as if we are to live on this earth forever.
— Arron Wood
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In the UK what we've found is that even businesses which prided themselves already on their efficient management find that a really beady-eyed scrutiny of…
— Margaret Beckett
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Sustainability is about profit...it is the opportunity of the century
— Ben Clarke
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Premium will increasingly be defined in terms of sustainability and environmental compatibility
— Norbert Reithofer
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The two-word definition of sustainability is 'one planet.'
— Mathis Wackernagel
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The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution - moving from hunter-gathering…
— Prince Charles
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Keeping people on side is a precondition of making any progress on sustainability issues
— Jonathon Porritt
Who Wrote These Sustainability Quotes
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