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“Roughly two billion people participate in the money economy, with less than half of those living in the wealthy countries of the developed world. These affluent 800 million, however, account for more than 75 percent of the world's energy and resource consumption, and also create the bulk of its industrial, toxic, and consumer waste.”

People World Two Country Energy Half Millions Economy Waste Percent Resources Accounts Billions Consumers Wealthy Toxic Consumption Consumerism Overconsumption Affluent

Author:Stuart L. Hart

“Ours is the most wasteful nation on Earth. We waste more energy than we import. With about the same standard of living, we use twice as much energy per person as do other countries like Germany, Japan, and Sweden.”

Persons Country Use Earth Energy Nations Waste Standards Alternatives Germany Japan Other Countries Standards Of Living Imports Sweden

Author:Jimmy Carter

“I really liked German food. And it's very clean.. It's a very clean country. They kind of get rid of the waste really well... the garbage.”

Wells Kind Country Waste Clean Garbage Cleanliness

Author:Dominic Monaghan

“When engaged in safe occupations, and living in healthy countries, men are much more apt to be frugal, than in unhealthy, or hazardous occupations, and in climates pernicious to human life. Sailors and soldiers are prodigals. . . . War and pestilence have always waste and luxury, among the other evils that follow in their train.”

Source: Statement of Some New Principles on the Subject of Political Economy: Exposing the Fallacies of the System of Free Trade, and of Some Other Doctrines Maintained in the

“Voting is a meaningless exercise. I'm not going to waste my time with it. These parties, these politicians are given to us as a way of making us feel we have freedom of choice. But we don't. Everything is done to you in this country.”

Way Feels Country Done Choices Given Party Politician Exercise Waste My Time Voting Meaningless Freedom Of Choice Wasting My Time

Author:George Carlin

“capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital of the country, and therefore the excuse often made for extravagance, that it is good for trade, is based upon false notions respecting capital.”

Made Country Results Waste Economics Trade Notion Excuse Spending Saving Substance Decrease Extravagance Spendthrift

Book:Political Economy for Beginners

Source: Political Economy for Beginners

“The military is the largest polluter in the country, and so you have a lot of military waste contaminating reservations - as, for example, on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation, where 5,000 sheep died in some kind of experimental military nerve gas test 10 years ago. Many of our communities are dealing with that kind of waste, and an absence of political will to clean them up.”

“Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the Trans-Canada Highway two meters deep across the country. Present production of uranium waste from Saskatchewan alone occurs at the rate of over 1 million tons annually. Since 1975, hospitalization for cancer, birth defects and circulatory illnesses in that area have increased dramatically - between 123 and 600 percent in that region.”

“The way this country deals with drugs is just not funny. What a waste of everyone's time and effort. What a waste of a lot of people's lives.”

People Way Country Deals Effort Drug Waste

Author:Dave Barry

“How can you have in our country that is based upon liberality and liberation, be so anti-liberal. That's toxic waste to our consciousness. It's hard to be an American conservative because that's a contradiction in terms. Now if you take away freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of protest, and lock people out based upon their race, their language and their religion, that's conservative and fascist. America is a liberal idea.”

“Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that... I’ve always though that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted, their air quality is probably vastly inefficiently low compared to Los Angeles or Mexico City.”

“I get goose-bumps when you talk about Diane Wilson. Who knows where she found that courage? When she was a child, she would crawl under the bed when a stranger came to the house. But in 1989, she found out that her county in south Texas was ranked worst in the country for toxic waste. She wondered if the effluent, dumped into the waters where she and her family had shrimped for generations, might be responsible for the dwindling fish populations. And she suspected that her son's autism might be related to the pollution.”

“I want to serve. I love my country. I love service above self and I don't want my talents to go to waste. I also want to send a message to other men and women who've tripped over themselves, or over life: that you need to serve your time in purgatory.”

Men Want Needs Self Country Talent Waste Messages Men And Women Purgatory

Author:Paula Broadwell

“You can get a coalition of senators from particular states in America, for example, who want to construct highways or dams or ports which may well be very inefficient. The taxes would be paid by the people over the whole country, but the benefits would go to the few people in those particular locations. This type of spending is a rather gross waste of resources that worsened over the years as the government has been allowed to do more particularized things.”

“I'm very skeptical of the amount of money that goes into military expenditure, not just in the poor countries [but] also in the rich. I think it's one of the most massive wastes in the world, but education is [at the] other end. It's the bearer of the greatest fruits that mankind has ever known.”

Thinking World Ends Country Poor Known Rich Mankind Military Amount Waste Fruit Massive Skeptical Expenditures Poor Countries

Author:Amartya Sen

“I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it.”

Thinking Should Country Faces Behinds Economic Waste Logic Toxic Load Lowest Impeccable Between You And Me Toxic Waste

Author:Lawrence Summers

“It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.”

Source: Proceedings of the International Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society in Developing Countries, Bombay, November 1979

“Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste.”

Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

“An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love, My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public man, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds; I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death.”

“Have any of you taken a look out at Greece in the last, say, hour or so? (Hermes) What? Are they reacting to the fact I cursed the Apollites? (Apollo) I don’t think that bothers them nearly as much as the fact the island of Atlantis is now gone and the Atlantean goddess Apollymi is cutting a swathe through our country, laying waste to everyone and everything she comes into contact with. And in case you’re curious, she’s headed straight for us. I could be really wrong here, but I’m guessing the woman’s extremely pissed. (Hermes)”

Thinking Looks Country Facts Lasts Hours Cases Gone Taken Cutting Waste Contact Our Country Curious Bother Islands Goddess Greece Apollo Cursed Reacting Guessing Atlantis Hermes

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy.”

Thinking Way Should Country Energy Waste Developed Country

Author:Hugo Chavez

“The biggest waste of water in the country by far. You spend half a pint and flush two gallons.”

Two Country Water Half Waste Pints Gallons

Author:Prince Philip

“I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.”

I Can Country Character Seems Action Travel Waste Wasting Time Funny Travel

Author:Jerzy Kosinski

“If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean the end of humanity. The big world corporations are busy doing it...The production, selling, consumption, accumulation, wastes' and advertisement explosions in the western rich countries and the continued population explosion in the poor countries will turn into major catastrophes.”

“If the aim is globalization without marginalization, we can no longer tolerate a world in which there live side by side the immensely rich and the miserably poor, the have-nots deprived even of essentials and people who thoughtlessly waste what others so desperately need. Such countries are an affront to the dignity of the human person. He further said, Ethics demand that systems be attuned to the needs of man, and not that man be sacrificed for the sake of the system.”

People Ifs Men World Needs Humans Persons Said Country Sides Poor Rich Environment Demand Essentials Waste Ethics Dignity Aim Sake Tolerate Globalization Deprived Affront Marginalization

Author:Pope John Paul II

“I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.”

People Men Mean Country Government Form Wish Economy Policy He Man Bears Cost Waste Men And Women Dollars Spending Favors Practicals Idealism Toil Saving Money Save Me Government Spending

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a waste for our country not to have the human capital that we developed - geared toward improving our entire society.”

Humans Country Waste Active Immigration Our Country Reform Improving Immigration Reform Waste Of Life

Author:Laurene Powell Jobs

“No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.”

Humans Country Order Social Rich Waste Resources Investing Unemployment Human Resources Menace Extravagance Social Order Demoralization

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1934, Volume 3

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1934, Volume 3

“Being in Marin City was like a small town so it taught me to be more [straightforward] with my style. Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover thingsIn Marin City it seemed like things were real country. Everything was straightforward. Poverty was straightforward.”

Trying Real Country Cities Poverty Style Taught Waste Towns Wasting Time Rhyme Small Town Straightforward Metaphorical

Author:Tupac Shakur

“A child born in a wealthy country is likely to consume, waste, and pollute more in his lifetime than 50 children born in developing nations. Our energy-burning lifestyles are pushing our planet to the point of no return. It is dawning on us at last that the life of our world is as vulnerable as the children we raise.”

World Children Country Lasts Energy Nations Born Planets Return Waste Raises Lifetime Climate Change Lifestyle Vulnerable Burning Developing Pushing Wealthy Our World Our Planet

Author:George Carey

“Certain countries are dumping nuclear waste directly into the ocean, making fish flesh even more poisonous.”

Country Certain Waste Ocean Fishes Flesh Nuclear Poisonous Nuclear Waste

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“The experience of every-day life fully proves that the armed individual is invariably anxious to try his strength. The same is historically true of governments. Really peaceful countries do not waste life and energy in war preparations, with the result that peace is maintained.”

Trying War Country Government Individual Energy Results Prove Waste Peaceful Preparation Anxious Day Life Peaceful Country

Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“Long, long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.”

Men Long Country Dies Cities Blood Waste Towns Giants Streams Dry Midst Bores Long Ago Incessantly Devouring

Book:The Decline of the West...: Perspectives of world-history

Source: The Decline of the West...: Perspectives of world-history