Civilisation Quote by Gore Vidal Download Open image “COâ‚‚ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.” — Gore Vidal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilisation Environmental Inspirational Love
Binding emissions targets for the developing nations are out of the question. — Eileen Claussen Copy Share Image
The growth in emissions is coming from the developing world. So if we are going to get out of this, it's going to come… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
We face the gravest threat that civilization has ever confronted. It's global in nature and requires a global solution. Increased CO2 emissions anywhere, whether… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Though Africa is not responsible for emitting greenhouse gases, it is suffering the consequences of climate change. — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
Most emissions aren't caused by individuals, they're caused by corporations and states. — Greta Thunburg Copy Share Image
“By itself, stopping emissions is insufficient. That carbon has to go someplace. As the Soil Carbon Coalition argues, it might as well go into… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
The largest source of greenhouse gases in the coming decades will not be the US, Western Europe and Japan, but the developing economies of… — Ross Gelbspan Copy Share Image
We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We have not done the things that are necessary to lower emissions because those things fundamentally conflict with deregulated capitalism. ... We are stuck… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries. — Chris Patten Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and… — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It crosses my mind that our generation may leave problems that are simply too hard for human society in the generations that follow. The… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind. — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
