"I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources."

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Yvon Chouinard

#Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Growth Quotes

“Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.”
“Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.”
“We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance.”
“Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.”

Source : "Rudolph Rummel Talks About the Miracle of Liberty and Peace". The Freeman Interview, fee.org. July 1, 1997.
“Demand and supply are the opposite extremes of the beam, whence depend the scales of dearness and cheapness; the price is the point of equilibrium, where the momentum of the one ceases, and that of the other begins.”

Source : Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.290
“A profit is not without honor save in Boston.”
“I have my faith and my principles, and this is what makes me who I am. If the person loves me, he'll love my God too,”
“If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.”

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