Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west… keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts. – Mahatma Gandhi

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A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve. – Mahatma Gandhi

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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea. – Mahatma Gandhi

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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. – E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful, 1973

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Zoos are becoming facsimiles – or perhaps caricatures – of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all. – Michael Fox, Sierra, November-December 1990

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. – Ross Perot

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. – Albert Einstein

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