"Saving civilization is not a spectator sport." — Lester R. Brown
"Saving civilization is not a spectator sport."
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24 Quotes by Lester R. Brown
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We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs…
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In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe.…
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Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system…
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The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will…
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The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk…
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Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will…
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In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and…
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We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort…
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Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and…
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In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.
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Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water…
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One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for…
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More Civilization Quotes
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the…
— Margaret Atwood
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push…
— Irving Babbitt
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Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
— Richard Bach
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that…
— Edward Abbey
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
— L. Frank Baum
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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
— Jane Addams
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
— Georges Bernanos
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by…
— Ambrose Bierce
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