Quotes About Sustainability

Farmers will not see good days unless their produce gets a guaranteed price. Even a notebook, a pen, or a soap has a price printed on it, but the milk that farmers sell do not have any price.

There are billions of people in the world who deserve the better quality of life that products such as soap, shampoo, and clean drinking water can provide.

Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects.

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

If you want to destroy the planet, you can kiss social justice goodbye. The earth comes first.

You have got to have social justice to have climate justice.

Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living.' We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have.

One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.

It's not just about checking the box on corporate social responsibility. It's about hitting our bottom line.

I think CSR, corporate social responsibility, is something that is becoming front and center.

Strauss' water activities, which highlight both its social responsibility and commitment to the environment, meet a genuine need of people around the world today.

We're making a lot of changes at Gap Inc., but as our Social Responsibility Report demonstrates, doing business the right way is still extremely important to us.

Renewables is part of social responsibility, but the information revolution is the only main thing I am interested in.

But here's what I would tell people of my generation. I turn 40 this year. There isn't going to be a Social Security. There isn't going to be a Medicare when you retire. Forget about what your benefit is going to look like. There isn't going to be one if we don't make some reforms to save that program now.

If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too.

Social Security faces financial problems down the road because of demographics.

Small changes done now would preserve Social Security at full benefit.

Social Security is fundamentally strong.

People talk about Social Security. There is no parallel between Rhode Island's pension and Social Security.

A year's worth of Social Security for an individual is not considered to be below the poverty level, and yet we know that would be extraordinarily tough to live on.

I am not employed and my only income is Social Security.

We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.

I want to build businesses that are high quality, socially conscious, and for the people.