Famous Quotes

"The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment."

Barry Commoner on Society

More quotes about Society

• "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

• "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

  Robert A. Heinlein on Society

• "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

  Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society

• "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society

• "There is more to life than increasing its speed."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

More quotes by Barry Commoner

• "Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art."

• "Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art."

• "The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II."

• "Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it."

• "The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die."