#stain

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. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#amongst #businesses #concept #debated #development

The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#any #development #few #i #india

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it. ↗

— John J. Sweeney

#cannot #current #current form #democratic #democratic societies

The Anti-Slavery public have generously responded to our appeal, and sent the means to enable us to fit them out well, to pay their passages, supply them with many useful articles and give the Missionaries money to sustain themselves for a while. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#articles #enable #fit #generously #give

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it! ↗

— Sai Baba

#even #lotus #must #petals #rises

Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#cannot #covered #denied #did #form

They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies. ↗

— Andy Couturier

#environmentalism #green #japan #sustainability #japan

What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work. ↗

— Peter MacKay

#connected #elected #ensuring #government #include

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible? ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#impossible #socialism #unsustainable #what if

My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#broken #daily #dimly #i #ink