Sustainable Quotes

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace. (Wangari Maathai)
The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn't acknowledge that there is a world beyond America. View quote
Arundhati Roy
In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development. View quote
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. View quote
Kofi Annan
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. View quote
Kofi Annan
A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries. View quote
Gro Harlem Brundtland
I now say that the world has the technology – either available or well advanced in the research pipeline – to feed on a sustainable basis a population of 10 billion people. The more pertinent question today is whether farmers and ranchers will be permitted to use this new technology? While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions, and pay more for food produced by the so-called "organic” methods, the one billion chronically undernourished people of the low income, food-deficit nations cannot. View quote
Norman Borlaug
I don't eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now. View quote
Paul Watson
The Industrial Age is not sustainable. It's not sustainable in ecological terms, and it's not sustainable in human terms. View quote
Peter Senge
I believe that the existing power structures in Europe and Northeast Asia are not sustainable through 2020. View quote
John Mearsheimer
Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses. (Maurice Strong)
Organizations need to undergo fundamental changes, both in order to adapt to the new business environment and to become ecologically sustainable. View quote
Fritjof Capra
A balanced treaty between Canada and Europe, aimed at promoting a partnership for fair and sustainable development, should begin by specifying the emission targets of each signatory and the practical commitments to achieve these. View quote
Thomas Piketty
The economic distress of America's inner cities may be the most pressing issue facing the nation. The lack of businesses and jobs in disadvantaged urban areas fuels not only a crushing cycle of poverty but also crippling social problems such as drug abuse and crime... A sustainable economic base can be created in the inner city, but only as it has been created elsewhere: through private, for-profit initiatives and investment based on economic self-interest and genuine competitive advantage. View quote
Michael E. Porter
The US plutocracy has declared war on sustainable development. View quote
Jeffrey D. Sachs
We have too large a disparity in the world; we need more inclusiveness... If we continue to have uninclusive growth and we continue with the unemployment situation, particularly youth unemployment, our global society is not sustainable. View quote
Klaus Schwab
Technology and Ideology are shaking the foundations of 21st century capitalism. Technology is making skills and knowledge the only sources of sustainable strategic advantage. View quote
Lester Thurow
Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress. View quote
B.K.S. Iyengar
I'd like to provide information, inspiration, and access to whatever goods and services are needed to make it super easy for everyone to change their lifestyle to a sustainable one. View quote
Daryl Hannah
In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change. View quote
Abdallah II
Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development. (Anna Lindh)
The key to truly rebuilding our central city on a vital and sustainable foundation is people. View quote
Alan Autry
Tourism in India has the potential to promote faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth. It could be used as a powerful antidote to tackle poverty. View quote
Chiranjeevi
Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. Id much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners. View quote
Frans Lanting
Sustainable development is a fundamental break that's going to reshuffle the entire deck. There are companies today that are going to dominate in the future simply because they understand that. View quote
Francois-Henri Pinault