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

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women. – Muhammad Yunus

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Family
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I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over. – Muhammad Yunus

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Money
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There are two problems for our species survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and were hurtling towards them. Knowingly. – Noam Chomsky

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The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved. – Richard Rogers

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It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. – David R. Brower

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