Basic principles Quote by Lester R. Brown

Over and over, the economy has determined the extent of our response, but how much value does it place on breathable air, drinkable water,…

— David Suzuki

A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and more focused…

— Lester R. Brown

The economy is after all driven by people. No matter how dire the situation may be, as long as people are firm, a turnaround,…

— Daisaku Ikeda

No economy can continue to function when the vast middle class and everybody else don't have enough purchasing power to buy what the economy…

— Robert Reich

Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two…

— Stuart L. Hart

Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not a 'steadily…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is an anathema…

— Tim Jackson

We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equilibrium. A more helpful way of…

— Paul Ormerod

If we attempt to preserve the consumer economy indefinitely, ecological forces will dismantle it savagely. If we proceed to dismantle it gradually ourselves, we…

— Alan Thein Durning

For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy.

— Keith Ellison

The economy of the 21st century will come to center on agriculture. Life will be intensely and profoundly local in ways that we can't…

— James Howard Kunstler