The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global co-operation on.

In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost.

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?

We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.

Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally

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.

The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.

We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.

I am a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology.

Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.

The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost.

If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish

[Warren Beatty] definitely sees 'Rules' as a comedic consequence to the American sexual puritanism that is dramatically presented in 'Splendor.'

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.

If I'm not learning from something that I'm doing, then that means I've done it before. Do something different, even if it's within the same medium.

Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.

Eat where the people eat, not the hotels and touristy restaurants. If a local teacher makes $50 a month and they're living decently, see what they do.

Money's only important when you don't have any.