Top 35 Helen Caldicott Quotes
#1. It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.
Helen Caldicott
#2. Jeanine Honicker. . . . coined a sentence . . . 'The solution to pollution by dilution when it comes to radiation if fallacious.
Helen Broinowski Caldicott
#3. When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.
Erich Leinsdorf
#4. Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby.
Helen Caldicott
#5. I'd like to be seen as an average Australian bloke. I can't think of ... I can't think of a nobler description of anybody than to be called an average Australian bloke.
John Howard
#6. Cuba is a wonderful country. What Castro's done is superb.
Helen Caldicott
#8. And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.
Allen Klein
#9. The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary - to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.
Joyce Brothers
#10. Isaac out of surgery. It went well. He's officially NEC.
NEC meant "no evidence of cancer." A second text came a few seconds later.
I mean, he's blind. So that's unfortunate.
John Green
#11. As a doctor, as well as a mother and a world citizen, I wish to practice the ultimate form of preventive medicine by ridding the earth of these technologies that propagate disease, suffering, and death.
Helen Caldicott
#12. You're going to have to change the priorities of your life, if you love this planet.
Helen Caldicott
#13. Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
Helen Caldicott
#14. If the corporations have their way, the Earth will be killed, and that's in your lifetime. It's revolting to me that students are being trained to work in corporations. It's obscene to me that the corporations are running the world. We've got to get cross. Anger is an appropriate emotion.
Helen Caldicott
#15. James "Knockout Jimmy" O'Brien, Granite Fall's very own boxing legend - a title he held until a young groupie poked holes in the condom she made him wear "for protection."
My brother was born nine months later, fists already swinging.
Kate Avelynn
#16. I don't want to fly the flag for being unhealthy and overweight, but I don't want to fly the flag for being too thin, either.
Martine McCutcheon
#19. For the poor of this world, two major ways of expiring are available: either by the absolute indifference of your fellow-men in peace-time, or by the homicidal passion of these same when war breaks out.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#20. The massive quantities of radiation that would be released in a war fought with nuclear weapons might, over time, cause such great changes in the human gene pool that following generations might not be recognizable as human beings.
Helen Caldicott
#21. In terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction.
Helen Caldicott
#22. I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.
Edwin Land
#23. We are the curators of life on earth. We hold it in the palm of our hand.
Helen Caldicott
#24. On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I didn't think there was still hope.
Helen Caldicott
#25. Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer.
Helen Caldicott
#27. The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power ...
Helen Caldicott
#28. I'm not the one who's so far away
When I feel the snake bite enter my veins.
Never did I wanna be here again,
And I don't remember why I came.
Sully Erna
#29. The U.S. population, a mere four or five percent of the world total, creates half the world's toxic waste.
Helen Caldicott
#30. The whole world is being 'deculturalized' into a uniform 'Coca-Cola society,' wanting and needing an American way of life.
Helen Caldicott
#31. It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#33. When dark, it's bright, when brightest, it's gone. When gone for good, so will I be.
What am I?
Avi
#34. The future of our children is a trust we have been given. To conserve and grow, not to squander wastefully on needless excesses. The earth is a trust, to protect and to honor. Our home, our livelihood, our future rests in the quality of our stewardship. Let us become better stewards.
Helen Caldicott
#35. I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.
Neil Gaiman
