Monbiot Quotes

Don't Judge People By Their Outer Appearances, Even The Bright Beautiful Moon Has Its Dark Side Which It Keeps Hidden All The Time ... — Muhammad Imran Hasan

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

Washington ... has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire. — Richard J. Maybury

Beware of anyone who describes a human being as something other than human being. — George Monbiot

An attraction to large predators often seems to be associated with misanthropy, racism and the far right. — George Monbiot

I just didn't believe Bush. — Saddam Hussein

The wealth creators of neoliberal mythology are some of the most effective wealth destroyers the world has ever seen. — George Monbiot

It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom. — Rachel Zoe

Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence. — Sharon Salzberg

Those who seek to drag heaven down to earth are destined only to engineer a hell. — 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

Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial. — George Monbiot

August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad. — George Monbiot

Complete surrender does require that you have no desire of your own, that God's desire alone is your desire and that you have no desire of your own. — Ramana Maharshi

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

If I had a theme song it would probably be "B-Boys Makin' with the Freak Freak" by the Beastie Boys. — Teresa Medeiros

The compulsion of fate is bitter. — Christoph Martin Wieland

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

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters — George Monbiot

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life. — 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

He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught. — Torquato Tasso

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

the best semiconductor engineers in the country — Walter Isaacson

Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse? — George Monbiot

Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere? — 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

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

Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope. — George Monbiot

The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians. — George Monbiot

Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else. — Diane Ackerman

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

Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves. — George Monbiot

I'm a proud Welshman. — Gareth Bale

Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists. — Adrian McKinty

Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more — George Monbiot

Why do you love me?" he asks, his voice a whisper in my ear as I close my eyes. "Because you gave me the fairytale when I didn't believe in them. — S.L. Scott