Quote by Muhammad Yunus
Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, t

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things. – Muhammad Yunus

Other quotes by Muhammad Yunus

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world – out of six billion people, more than three billion – do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame. – Muhammad Yunus

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finance
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My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see. – Muhammad Yunus

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Change
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I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh. – Muhammad Yunus

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Money
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So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions. – Godfrey Reggio

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Im a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment. – David Frum

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environmental

Under the Environmental Protection Agencys Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses. – Melissa Bean

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environmental

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know well soon be in trouble. – Roger Tory Peterson

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environmental

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