#sustain

A core challenge for Australia is - how do we best prepare ourselves for the Asia Pacific century - to maximise the opportunities, to minimise the threats and to make our own active contribution to making this Asia-Pacific Century peaceful, prosperous and sustainable for us all. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#asia #australia #best #century #challenge

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#democracy #experience #fear #having #lived

Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#army #become #blood #cannot #curious

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#almost #development #everybody #me #most

Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway. ↗

— Maurice Strong

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We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits. ↗

— Maurice Strong

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Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development. ↗

— Maurice Strong

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If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset. ↗

— Maurice Strong

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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

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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

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