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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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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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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The position I took at the time was that we hadnt really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms. – Jeremy Rifkin

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There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table. – Ed Rendell

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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. – John Muir

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On the environmental front theres concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon. – Clive Anderson

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