“When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.”
- Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Civil disobedience, that’s not our problem. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.”
- Howard Zinn
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“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
– Martin Luther King Jnr
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“It is as much psychological and social phenomenon as anything else… Global warming is strictly an imaginary problem of the First World middleclass…The modern environmental move has hijacked itself by looking for an excuse to stay comfortable and stay away from actual battle……… If you are really concerned about saving world’s forests or habitat destruction, then fight against habitat destruction, don’t go off in tenuous thing about co2 concentration in the atmosphere. Actually address the question; otherwise you are weakening your effect as an activist.”
- Dr. Denis Rancourt, former professor and environmental science researcher at the University of Ottawa
“Our scientific powers have outrun our spiritual powers; we have guided missiles and mis-guided men.”
- Martin Luther King Jnr
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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” - Plato
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“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”
— Albert Einstein
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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
- Soren Kierkegaard
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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
- Edmund Burke
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Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”
-Dalai Lama
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“I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.”
- Gandhi
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“Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value —- zero.”
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
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“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power”
- Benito Mussolini
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“One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
- Martin Luther King Jnr
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“Peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducible from it”
- G.W.F. Hegelmore
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“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
- Gandhi
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“The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”
- Albert Camus
“I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil”
- Alan Greenspan (Former Chairman of The Federal Reserve), The Age of Turbulence
“Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.”
- Jean-Paul Sartre
“Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains”
- Â Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762)
“Climate change is another factor affecting the landscape. At the beginning of the (14th) century it is not unusual to buy English wine. Many noble and royal houses have extensive vineyards. Not so a hundred years later. By 1400 the vineyards in England have all but gone. The mean temperature has dropped by about one degree centigrade”
- Dr Ian Mortimer, “The Time Travellers Guide To Medieval England”
“Nothing to fear in God; Nothing to feel in death; Good can be attained; Evil can be endured”
- Epicurus, 3rd century BCE
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly”
- Martin Luther King Jnr
“For too long our society has been left to fend for itself to judge the safety of environments. Corporations churn out thousands of new products and chemicals each year, advertising their functionality, convenience, efficiency, aesthetic and health promoting effects. Rarely do we hear about their ingredients, or eventual fate as waste. Public discourse, too, is dominated by the private sector, which has effectively shaped our values, our consumer behaviour, and how we assess risk. The effect has been the creation of more chemicals, pollution, and waste than ever before in human history, which in turn has accelerated the chemical transformation of the planet and our bodies, as well as the growing incidence of human illness associated with degraded environments”
- Prof. John Wargo, Green Intelligence
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