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

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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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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By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. – Aeschylus

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In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle its for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again. – David Suzuki

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environmental

Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation. – Sherwood Boehlert

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environmental

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it. – Barry Commoner

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environmental

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