"Why is our (US) government the only one……" — Donella Meadows
"Why is our (US) government the only one in the civilized world with a stupid, short-term energy policy? Why do our elected officials consider a European or Japanese-type energy tax not only unpassable but undiscussable?"
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49 Quotes by Donella Meadows
Donella Meadows has 49 quotes on this site.
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What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly…
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The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labour, or technology. It is our willingness to listen to…
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A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.
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No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any…
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There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on…
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How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a…
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I call the transformed world toward which we can move ‘sustainable,’ by which I mean a great deal more than a…
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The European nations take climate change very seriously.
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The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there…
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You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.
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A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor
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Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what…
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I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss…
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In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is…
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.
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The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in…
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