Development Quote by Zygmunt Bauman

“Human greed feeds a creed.”

— Volodymyr Knyr

When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation…

— Neil Strauss

Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life…

— Walter Gropius

War and peace-making, human rights, humanitarian issues have become industries, but nobody looks closely at human greed, at the arms industry and the manufacture…

— Haris Pasovic

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

— Gore Vidal

“The planet may never recover from the environmental devastation wrought by commercial fishing. It seems that our oceans, once thought to hold an endless…

— Hope Bohanec

For the exploitation of human greed, they have devised comparison and competition. Right from childhood on, we are indoctrinated to compare and compete, and…

— Lobsang Tenzin

'Efficient' scheduling and control of time are often counterproductive. The efficiency focus creates expectations that clash with the opportunities to develop rich relationships, to…

— Stephen Covey

We must start... rebuilding our cities around energy efficiency and human needs, rather than around the car and wasted energy.

— Jay Inslee

Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human needs if…

— Karl-Henrik Robert

The greatest economic minds of the 19th century, all of them without exception, considered economic growth as a temporary necessity. When all human needs…

— Zygmunt Bauman

Permaculture is not the movement of sustainability and it is not the philosophy behind it; it is the problem-solving approach the movement and the…

— Toby Hemenway