Commoner Quotes
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Commoner Quotes & Sayings
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John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.
— Chris Matthews
The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.
— Barry Commoner
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.
— Barry Commoner
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
— Barry Commoner
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
— Barry Commoner
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
— Barry Commoner
In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
— Barry Commoner
There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.
— Winston Churchill
Oh, dear spirits below, this is the best thing that I have ever been privy to. Lord Ackerly shadowed a commoner from the colonies!
— Kiersten White
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
— Barry Commoner
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly,
we must pay
for every intrusion
on the natural environment. — Barry Commoner
No action is without its side effects.
— Barry Commoner
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
— Barry Commoner
The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.
— Barry Commoner
The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
— Barry Commoner
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
— Barry Commoner
Theirs was a story of two people bound strongly to one another yet forbidden to be together. He was royalty, she was a commoner.
— Kristen Britain
Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.
— John Burnham Schwartz
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
— Barry Commoner
Technologists practice faith too; 'Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.'
— Barry Commoner
For who could resist a woman who could fall from being queen to commoner and yet still carry herself as if greatness was within?
— Philippa Gregory
The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
— Barry Commoner
Mamata Banerjee is just a casual worker, just like a commoner.
— Mamata Banerjee
I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.
— Sheridan Smith
If they were meant to really be together, why had they been born a prince and a commoner? And if they weren't, why did she feel this way inside?
— Scott Westerfeld
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
— Barry Commoner
Yachts are the closest a commoner can get to sovereignty.
— Charles Simonyi
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
— Samuel Butler
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
— Barry Commoner
Money is far commoner than time. When one reflects, one perceives that money is just about the commonest thing there is.
— Arnold Bennett
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
— Barry Commoner
We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.
— Barry Commoner
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
— Jean De La Fontaine
Nothing ever goes away.
— Barry Commoner
Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school.
— S.A. Tawks
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
— Barry Commoner
Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,Painter or plumber or never-do-well,
Do me a favor and shut your face -
Poets alone should kiss and tell. — Dorothy Parker
