Hilary Benn famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to be a safe and secure world
-- Hilary Benn

#Future #Vision #World
This is the new politics. Personal responsibility. Not leaving it to others. I am my planet's keeper.
-- Hilary Benn

#Responsibility #Leaving #Climate Change
Our changing climate has changed our politics
-- Hilary Benn

#Climate #Climate Change #Changed
As each tree falls so does the earth's ability to heal itself and to adapt to the effects of our changing climate
-- Hilary Benn

#Fall #Tree #Climate
Resource efficiency - it's about only taking what we need
-- Hilary Benn

#Business #Needs #Management
Why do we send valuable items like aluminium and food waste to landfill when we can turn them into new cans and renewable energy? Why use more resources than we need to in manufacturing? We must now work together to build a zero waste nation - where we reduce the resources we use, reuse and recycle all that we can and only landfill things that have absolutely no other use
-- Hilary Benn

#Zero #Working Together #Energy

To line only for some unknown future is superficial.
Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good trees bear fruit round the year, discreetly, moving along the waterways and four seasons of the faithful sun.
Our history is not our destiny.
You don't need vision to be a visionary.
But, in conformity to His wisdom it was right that afterwards the Prophet should be sent back from the vision of pure Unity and that he should return . . . toward the separative vision. For, He created man and jinn only that they should worship Him and know Him - and, if they remained at the degree of pure Unity, there would be none to worship Him. In this separative vision, the Worshipped and the worshipper, the Lord and the servant, the Creator and the creature are again perceived.
Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.
Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

Hilary Benn famous quotes

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