#inability

The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#american #american media #betray #biological #chemical

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#finances #frustrated #i #i think #inability

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#comes #evil #human #inability #man

Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food. ↗

— Rene Redzepi

#because #chef #cook #delicious #delicious food

It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#after #any #anybody #anywhere #been

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#defy #first #forces #least #natural

We need – more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes – to comprehend the nature of citizenship, to make serious imaginative assessment of that special relationship between the self and the city; its unique plasticity, its privacy and freedom. ↗

— Jonathan Raban

#citizenship #inspirational #sustainability #architecture

The key ingredient to progress, to getting ahead, is to leave a foundation behind. ↗

— Dov Seidman

#business

If left unexecuted, even the greatest competitive strategies are not worth the paper on which they were written. ↗

— Eric Lowitt

#sustainability #business

If you can't reuse or repair an item, do you ever really own it? Do you ever really own it? Do you ever develop the sense of pride and proprietorship that comes from maintaining an object in fine working order? We invest something of ourselves in our material world, which in turn reflects who we are. In the era of disposability that plastic has helped us foster, we have increasingly invested ourselves in objects that have no real meaning in our lives. We think of disposable lighters as conveniences -- which they indisputably are; ask any smoker or backyard-barbecue chef -- and yet we don't think much about the tradeoffs that that convenience entails. ↗

— Susan Freinkel

#environment #plastic #sustainability #love