The Commoner Quotes
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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
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
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
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly,
we must pay
for every intrusion
on the natural environment. — 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
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
When meeting royalty, it is very important, no matter how excited you are, not to vomit on them. Instead, vomit on the nearest commoner.
— Stephen Colbert
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
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
— 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
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
Money is far commoner than time. When one reflects, one perceives that money is just about the commonest thing there is.
— Arnold Bennett
The clergy were to pray for all men, the knight to fight for them, and the commoner to work that all might eat.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
— Barry Commoner
