James Gustave Speth famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Materialism is toxic to happiness, and we are losing our connection to the natural world.
-- James Gustave Speth

#Toxic #Connections #World
If some of these answers seem radical or far-fetched today, then I say wait until tomorrow. Soon it will be abundantly clear that it is business as usual that is utopian, whereas creating something very new and different is a practical necessity.
-- James Gustave Speth

#Creating #Waiting #Usual
Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but also of opportunity, empowerment and, most important, dignity.
-- James Gustave Speth

#Opportunity #People #Empowerment
Value change can change our pathetic capitulation to consumerism, which will help us psychologically as well as environmentally.
-- James Gustave Speth

#Helping #Consumerism #Wells
The pattern is clear: if we could speed up time, it would seem as if the global economy is crashing against the earth - the Great Collision.
-- James Gustave Speth

#Growth #Earth #Patterns
My wife and I have purchased two hybrids. We bought a 3 kw photovoltaic unit. We recycle and offset our carbon emissions on the Internet. We turn things off. But we also spend two nice salaries every year, and here's the dirty little secret - our environmental footprint is HUGE, I'm sure. We've all got to do what we can in our individual lives, but we've also got to drive the systemic changes that will make the big differences.
-- James Gustave Speth

#Nice #Dirty #Years

I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.
Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country
Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites
I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever.
John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater strain it imposes.
It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.

James Gustave Speth famous quotes

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