Quote by Vivienne Westwood
Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earths treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply. – Vivienne Westwood

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Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I dont notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70. – Vivienne Westwood

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We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great. – Vivienne Westwood

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I dont think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things Im concerned about are at the top of other peoples agendas – not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change. – Patti Smith

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Chinese people themselves, they really want change. – Dalai Lama

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It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while. – Luther Burbank

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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. – Nelson Mandela

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