Quotes of Pollution - somelinesforyou

“ Approximately 80 % of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. ”

- Robert Orben

“ The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect. ”

- Rene Dubos

“ I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself. ”

- Thomas More

“ I'll probably be punished for hard living. ”

- Tupac Shakur

“ Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine? ”

- Tupac Shakur

“ A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. ”

- Herodotus

“ I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. ”

- Dan Quayle

“ Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. ”

- R. Buckminster Fuller

“ There is nothing in those logs at all about chemical contamination of my troops. ”

- Norman Schwarzkopf

“ The diesel engine industry has illegally poured millions of tons of pollution into the air,... It's time for the industry to clean up its act, and it's time for it to clean up the air. ”

- Janet Reno

“ This is the first time a Kurd has been freely elected to be the president of an Arab country. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution. ”

- Uri Geller

“ The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation. ”

- Dixie Lee Ray

“ We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place. ”

- Gunther Grass

“ Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves. ”

- Rachel Carson

“ Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it. ”

- Susan Sontag

“ Congestion means lost time, squandered productivity, wasted gasoline, increased safety concerns, and air pollution. it's time to change. My vision is a transportation system that compliments the way Marylanders choose to live - a balance between mass transit and new highway construction. ”

- Robert. L. Ehrlich

“ The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth… the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us. ”

- Susan Sontag

“ Ethanol has reduced our nation's dependence on imported energy, created thousands of jobs, reduced air pollution, and increased energy security. And renewable fuels cost less at the pump. It is a growth fuel that fuels opportunities for millions of Americans. ”

- Lane Evans

“ Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide. ”

- Susan Sontag

“ We stand today poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space and of an overall environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight. This, in brief, is the quiet conservation crisis. ”

- Stewart L. Udall

“ During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ”

- George Orwell

“ A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. ”

- Willa Cather

“ Truth is on the side of the oppressed. ”

- Malcolm X

“ During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ”

- Eric Blair
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