People Quotes

Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.

~ Spencer Bachus

Here in Denmark, you can easily just be left alone. This is my 'hood, and people leave me alone; it's nice.

~ Lars Mikkelsen

We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.

~ Ma Jun

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

~ Robert Collier

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

~ Joseph Wood Krutch

All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.

~ David Attenborough

If people are prepared to eat locally and seasonally, then they probably do pretty well in terms of environmental impact.

~ Peter Singer

I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.

~ Bernie Sanders

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

~ Vivienne Westwood

It's worth knowing more about the complicated environmental and genetic factors that could explain why traumatic brain injuries lead to long-term disabilities in some people and not in others.

~ Anne Wojcicki

I feel it is urgently necessary to train people who are capable of tackling the various problems we face today in regards to environmental turmoil and the relevancy of clothing.

~ Issey Miyake

Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I call the environmental umbilical that we're nurturing here.

~ Joel Salatin

As fears about the energy and environmental crises reach a fever pitch, we're all searching for solutions. And one possibility is that we could fix everything if we'd just shrink our population back down to about 2 billion people - which would put us roughly where we were at 80 years ago.

~ Annalee Newitz

People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.

~ Sigourney Weaver

We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.

~ Freeman Dyson

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.

~ Barry Commoner

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

~ Maurice Strong

Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more people driving more cars.

~ Jared Diamond

There's so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - all of them. I know that when I'm eating that I'm not hurting the planet, I'm not hurting other people on this planet, I'm not hurting animals... and I'm not hurting nature.

~ Maggie Q

I have a pretty positive view of environmental activism, but I didn't know much about the ELF. A lot of people make documentaries because they have something they want to say, but I make them because there's something I want to explore.

~ Marshall Curry

People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

~ Ed Begley

But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes.

~ Sigmar Gabriel

I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is readily available.

~ Lee R. Raymond

What I see are people who want affordable energy. They want strong environmental standards - they want a lot of things - but first and foremost they want affordable energy. And if you want affordable energy, you want oil, gas and coal.

~ John S. Watson

I believe that it is impossible to stop people from using the fossil fuels, so we need to develop technologies which allow us to use them without creating environmental havoc on the planet.

~ Klaus Lackner

I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.

~ Paul Krugman

I've always been a big supporter of the Surfrider Foundation. I started my own foundation, Rob Machado Foundation, which focuses on environmental education for the little people of the world.

~ Rob Machado

While the climate crisis gathers front-page attention on a regular basis, people - even those who profess great environmental consciousness - continue to eat fish as if it were a sustainable practice.

~ Daniel Pauly

I'd like to avoid the environmental apocalypse if I could. Zombies, robots - I don't know - I'd probably do alright hidden in the middle of the herd and sacrificing people to keep myself alive, but where you gonna hide when all the food is gone?

~ Ben Peek

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

~ William S. Burroughs

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn't marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

~ Pope Francis

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

~ Marilyn Manson

The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society to establish conditions which improve the standard of living for the majority of its people.

~ Lee Kuan Yew

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

~ John F. Kennedy

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

~ Thomas Jefferson

I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

~ Solon

The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

~ David Cameron

In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.

~ Maajid Nawaz

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

~ Charles Horton Cooley