"...the core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence, empathy, equity, personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon which any viable vision of a better world can possibly be constructed"

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Source : Jonathon Porritt (2012). “Capitalism as If the World Matters”, p.347, Routledge

Jonathon Porritt

#Responsibility Quotes #Justice Quotes #Empathy Quotes

“Romance is the poetry of literature.”
“We sift reality through screens composed of ideas . (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are necessarily limited by language , by the ways we can describe them. That is to say: language cuts the grooves in which our thoughts move. If we seek new validity forms (other laws and other orders) we must step outside language.”
“In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.”
“I try not to get too cute for cute's sake.”

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“I just liked the idea of being engaged.”
“It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over, it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost.”
“Life begins at six--at least in the minds of six-year-olds. . . . In kindergarten you are the baby. In first grade you put down the baby. . . . Every first grader knows in some osmotic way that this is real life. . . . First grade is the first step on the way to a place in the grown-up world.”
“Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.”

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