Civilization Quote by Lester R. Brown Download Open image “Saving civilization is not a spectator sport.” — Lester R. Brown ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Culture Saving Spectators Sports
Life may not be a spectator sport but many spend time watching it go by. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Where there are no spectators, there is no sponsorship. Where there is no sponsorship, there is no money. Where there is no money, there… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The stakes ... are too high for government to be a spectator sport. — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment. — Avery Brundage Copy Share Image
The challenge is either to build an economy that is sustainable or to stay with our unsustainable economy until it declines. It is not… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
The problem with water, though, is that the shortfalls don't show up until the very end. You can go on pumping unsustainably until the… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all the Earth's… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Yet, most of the readily accessible reserves of oil formed over hundreds of millions of years will be consumed within a single generation, spanning… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the last few… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
