Barry Commoner Quotes

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

Barry Commoner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 28, 1917 - September 30, 2012

Topics

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It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto anymore, but every time I go back, I'm still seeing the same things that I lived.

Jimmy Cliff

LiveTimeMeSeeingBackGhetto

The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.

Anita Roddick

MoneyFoundationAmericaBodyTax

I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

ChildLookWantMakeMadePaintings

I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries.

Michael Giles

PeopleThinkBoundariesOutWithin

This filing spike is a result of bad information being pushed on people, and then they file for bankruptcy out of fear.

Steve Bartlett

FearPeopleResultInformationBad

I don't like acting; not in front of the camera.

Spike Lee

CameraActingLikeFront

We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us incessantly with the latest 'must-haves', whether that's shoes, videogames or patio heaters. As a result, mums think they 'have' to work at Tesco in order to buy expensive trainers.

Tom Hodgkinson

WorkShoesAdvertisingThinkResult

Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto it and people will always, always be looking for an answer for some vague illness they can't get a diagnosis for.

Mary Roach

PeopleCrazyFashionLookingBack

The way I look at it is, when you allow people to submerge themselves into a story, they will react by thinking through what it's about. That's just so much more fun and effective, I think, than a lecture.

Jordan Peele

FunPeopleStoryThinkThinkingYou

I know that there's a cultural expectation that women be nurturing, delicate flowers. And I am. So delicate. But that doesn't mean I can't write a good, gory murder scene.

Chelsea Cain

GoodWomenI AmFlowersKnowMean

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

Connie Mack

ManTeamKnowMoreFirstHandle

I had come across a few sports psychologists, and I had no time for nearly all of them. I just don't think they work in a team environment.

Brian O'Driscoll

WorkSportsTimeTeamThinkNo Time

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