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“I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and 'Blindsight,' and not least in the awe and gratitude I feel for the group of people who were courageous enough to share their stories with us - and to live lives so rich in inspiration for us all.”

People Feels I Can Enough Helping Stories Inspiration Film Rich Seeing Groups Share Land Gratitude Waste Devil Thirds Live Life Awe Courageous Playgrounds Waste Land

Author:Lucy Walker

“Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars. At present the whole University system is rotten to the core, and an appalling waste of time, energy and money.”

Whole Hands Care Energy Education Rich Taken Politician Waste Thirds Rate University Core Wasting Time Scholar Rotten

Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“No man is rich enough to waste his money in putting on style.”

Men Enough Rich Style Waste

Author:Gustavus Franklin Swift

“It's always the rich and there's plenty to waste, yet still China has a lot of people living in very spare, poor conditions.”

People Stills Poor Rich Conditions Waste China Plenty Spares

Author:Ai Weiwei

“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

“Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.”

Matter Political Social Poor Poverty Rich Society Waste Vegan Rebellious Rich And Poor Uselessness Rich Poor Riches And Poors

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“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

“A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness.”

World Art Values Rich Greatness Waste Bounds Works Of Art Surroundings No Money Borrowed Surrounded By Love

Author:Ernst Junger

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”

“It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree that grows in secret That bears fruit in secret That ripened falls to the ground in secret And manures the parent tree Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret The sap rising and the tears falling.”

Fall Grows Parent Water Poor Secret Rich Tree Tears Bears Waste Hatred Fruit Privilege Rising Wicked Sap Manure Tears Falling

Book:New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith

Source: New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith

“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

“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

“Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up time when you might be doing individual private things, but it prevents you storing up the psychic energy that can then be released to create art or whatever it is. It's terrible the way we scotch silence & solitude at every turn, quite suicidal. I can't see how to avoid it, without being very rich or very unpopular, & it does worry me, for time is slipping by , and nothing is done. It isn't as if anything was gained by this social frivolity, It isn't: it's just a waste.”

Source: Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

“Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.”

Doe Enough Today Levels Rich Planets Waste Resources Seven Eight Billions Consumption Our Planet Hyper

Author:Jose Mujica