Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets

The first law of humanity is not to kill your children.

What is the difference between a 2°C world and a 4°C world? Human civilisation!

The bottom billion people don't contribute at all to climate change - maybe 1 percent of emissions, they could double or triple their emissions and the climate would not be destabilised.

Don't ask what global climate protection can do for your country; ask what your country can do for climate protection.

We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible.

When you imagine that if all these 9 billion people claim all these resources, then the earth will explode.

The planetary machinery tends to be jumpy, this is to respond disproportionately to disruptions that come with the manmade greenhouse effect.

The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

The future will look futuristic only because we will be trying to make it look futuristic.

The customer always comes first.

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

Faith is an active creative force.

There's no man, alive or dead, who's going to fault you for living.

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.

If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

It hurts when people put you down.

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.