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“They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.”

Economy Depends Survival Intellectual Property Seeds Locks Intellectual Property

Author:Jeremy Rifkin

“I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.”

People Needs States Able Enjoy Economic Depends Survival Florida Tourists Tourism

Author:Corrine Brown

“The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.”

Individual Democracy Strength Depends Citizens Survival Capacity Army Size Rely American Democracy

Book:Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy

Source: Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy

“Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more.”

Chance Depends Survival Resources Consuming

Author:George Monbiot

“'Environment' is not an abstract concern, or simply a matter of aesthetics, or of personal taste - although it can and should involve these as well. Man is shaped to a great extent by his surroundings. Our physical nature, our mental health, our culture and institutions, our opportunities for challenge and fulfillment, our very survival - all of these are directly related to and affected by the environment in which we live. They depend upon the continued healthy functioning of the natural systems of the Earth.”

“What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon widespread ignorance of how it really operates.”

Years Lasts Changed Ignorance Depends Survival Currents

Author:Eric Schlosser

“As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.”

War Depends Victory Survival

Author:James Forrestal

“The people of the Third World need our sympathetic understanding and, much more than that, they need our help. We can provide them with a margin of survival by internal disruption in the United States. Whether they can succeed against the kind of brutality we impose on them depends in large part on what happens here.”

Source: How the World Works

“We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful place in the world, but because our very survival depends upon it.”

World Needs Beautiful Depends Bears Survival Places In The World Arctic Beautiful Places Polar Bears

Author:Lewis Gordon

“Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.”

Humans Long Desire Human Beings Psychology Depends Civilization Survival

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.”

Certain Force Democracy Conditions Stage Depends Development Survival Consequence Mere Productive Development Of Society

Author:Wei Jingsheng

“How can the public choose sides, when one side has nothing left to surrender? Not until the right is prepared to lose on principles will we ever hope to win this culture war on which the survival of our nation depends.”

War Culture Winning Left Nations Sides Loses Principles Depends Survival Prepared Surrender Conservatism

Author:Don Feder