Naomi Klein Quotes
What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.
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People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.
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What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts.
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I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.
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There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, is a part of air; because the nature of mobility is common to both; because the place of origin is the same for both; and because when one of them is controlled, the other gets controlled.
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By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
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If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.
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I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.
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As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved.
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There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
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China leads the world in energy consumption, carbon emissions, and the release of major air and water pollutants, and the environmental impact is felt both regionally and globally.
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The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.
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At the Justice Department, we have no greater obligation than ensuring all people are treated equally under the law, and Americans must know that we will vigorously pursue criminal activity regardless of whether the crime is committed on a street corner or in a corner office.
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.
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In order to actually have a touchscreen in front of me and somehow still be connected to nature, I needed to be able to incorporate natural elements into the song structures. Because that's always been my song-writing accompaniment: nature.
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Anytime I sing the anthem, it is an honor and my heart beats out of my chest.
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What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.
