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My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.
— Edward Brooke
Feeding a lion will never make him your friend.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally.
— George Monbiot
Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.
— Giuseppe Verdi
To be aware of inattention is to be attentive. Complete attention is love. It alone can see, and the seeing is the doing.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
An attraction to large predators often seems to be associated with misanthropy, racism and the far right.
— George Monbiot
The wealth creators of neoliberal mythology are some of the most effective wealth destroyers the world has ever seen.
— George Monbiot
Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.
— George Monbiot
I thought of walks in the English countryside, where people start shouting at you as soon as you stray from the footpath.
— George Monbiot
August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.
— George Monbiot
a wise man is not afraid to face the truth
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.
— George Monbiot
Nobody ever rioted for austerity.
— George Monbiot
There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and industry to leave it in the ground.
— George Monbiot
Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters
— George Monbiot
Pop music is like an auditory cup of coffee. It has no nutritional value but it gets you going.
— Jim Moorman
Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial.
— George Monbiot
Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware.
— George Monbiot
All nationhood is to some extent the artificial, the product of historical accident, the convenience of tyrants and the disengagement of colonists.
— George Monbiot
All the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom.
— George Monbiot
Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.
— George Monbiot
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
— Lucretius
Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?
— George Monbiot
War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything else goes with it.
— George Monbiot
Resources are not infinite: you cannot solve tomorrow's problem if you aren't willing to abandon today's dud.
— Steven D. Levitt
Empower yourself by empowering others.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.
— George Monbiot
The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.
— George Monbiot
In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair
— George Monbiot
Environment' is a term that creates no pictures in the mind, which is why I have begun to use 'natural world' or 'living planet' instead.
— George Monbiot
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Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves.
— George Monbiot
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
— Elia Kazan
Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more
— George Monbiot
