Extractive Quotes

#1. Because elites dominating extractive institutions fear creative destruction, they will resist it, and any growth that germinates under extractive institutions will be ultimately short lived.

Daron Acemoglu

#2. As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture, community becomes the locus and metaphor for both agriculture and culture.

Wes Jackson

#3. Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

Dan Barber

#4. We are letting the extractive energy industries turn the world inside out.

Josh Fox

#5. the encyclical also deals with poverty, the destruction of biodiversity, the pollution of fresh water and the oceans, sustainable food, extractive industries, and the waste created by the global economy.

Pope Francis

#6. 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 earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

Vivienne Westwood

#7. Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

Allan Savory

#8. The journalist's job isn't to be someone's friend, or their psychologist, or anything other than what we actually are. And at the end of the day, that can definitely seem like such a strange, extractive relationship.

Sarah Stillman

#9. Know that we win the war when we pray in power because prayer is the battle.

Stormie O'martian

#10. The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people.

Bobby Jindal

#11. So he was a sort of anti-Scheherazade, Dunia told him, the exact opposite of the storyteller of The Thousand Nights and One Night: her stories saved her life, while his put his life in danger.

Salman Rushdie

#12. You love fear. The ending of fear is death, and you don't want that to happen. I am not talking of wiping out the phobias of the body. They are necessary for survival. The death of fear is the only death.

U.G. Krishnamurti

#13. I always had the ability to throw a frisbee pretty well. I don't why.

Joel Silver

#14. Today is the tomorrow I was worried about yesterday.

Anthony Hopkins

#15. I incite this meeting to rebellion.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#16. Amateur grammar snobs are a lot like amateur gynecologists--they're everywhere, they're all to eager to offer their services, and they're anything but gentle.

June Casagrande

#17. To sweeten the hours we share scandals from the city, how curators removed an elephant's heart from the museum because it began beating when anyone in love looked at it, how the coroner found minnows swimming in a drowned girl's lungs.

Traci Brimhall

#18. Smile at strangers and you just might change a life.

Steve Maraboli

#19. I don't think there's a public in the world who respond like the British to a call for charity.

Terry Wogan

#20. I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.

Georges Bataille

#21. I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.

Anne Rice

#22. Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

Bergen Evans

#23. Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Blaise Pascal