"The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people."

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Naomi Oreskes

#People Quotes #Environmental Quotes #Damage Quotes

“One of the neighbors found Nasreddin scattering crumbs all around his house. "Why are you doing that?" he asked. "I'm keeping the tigers away," replied Nasreddin. "But there aren't any tigers around here," said the neighbor. "That's right," said Nasreddin. "You see how well it works?”
“Why?' is the prophetic question.”
“The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth, no shade of color, no mere misfortune of circumstances, can annul that birthright charter, which God has bequeathed to every being upon whom he has stamped his own image, by making him a free moral agent, and that he who robs his fellow man of this tramples upon right, subverts justice, outrages humanity, unsettles the foundation of human safety, and sacrilegiously assumes the prerogative of God.”
“We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.”
“He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.”

Source : Chris Bohjalian (2011). “The Night Strangers”, p.28, Broadway Books
“I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Death to the pigs is my basic statement.”
“My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that.”

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