Top 32 Herman Daly Quotes
#1. As the economist Herman Daly once put it: The current national accounting system treats the earth as a business in liquidation.
Bill Bryson
#2. I'm no genius, and others can outwork me. What I do is ask the naive, honest questions, and then I'm not satisfied until I get the answers.
Herman Daly
#3. Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.
Herman E. Daly
#4. Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.
Herman Daly
#5. Our needs cancel each other out, and that's as solid a base for love as any.
Rosario Ferre
#6. We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.
Herman E. Daly
#7. But the macro-economy is not the Whole. It too is a Part, a part of the larger natural economy, the ecosphere, and its growth does inflict opportunity costs on the finite Whole that must be counted.
Herman E. Daly
#8. I totally feel like an FBI agent right now, with my legs spread and my arms out straight, gripping the gun. I'll bet my butt looks awesome.
... I squint at the target, holding the gun like I've seen FBI guys do it in the movies. I am so badass.
Elle Casey
#10. You can't tell young people what to do. You can't tell 'em because they'll look at you and say, 'Well, how can you tell me not to do that when you were there doing it yourself?' Or supposedly were doing it yourself. I think you must let everyone live their life the way they have to.
Ronnie James Dio
#11. I've known white Australian girls from wealthy families who were sent to posh private schools, who knew all of that stuff, and I think would recognise much in Jefferson's book. What I related to most strongly was the sexism and misogyny Margo Jefferson had to battle.
Justine Larbalestier
#12. The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.
Herman E. Daly
#13. Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead.
Herman E. Daly
#14. A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.
David Mitchell
#15. A person with a golden heart is filled with love and likes to see something that he starts completed and done well.
Harold Klemp
#17. Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.
E.W. Howe
#18. The most debilitating characteristic of even the most well-behaved psychopath is the inability to form a workable team.
Robert D. Hare
#19. Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth ... Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage.
Herman E. Daly
#20. There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.
Elizabeth George
#21. Nonrenewable resources should be exploited, but at a rate equal to the creation of renewable substitutes.
Herman E. Daly
#22. Think of all the different features from Asian to African to Aboriginal to Caucasian. But we are all within the same species, Homo Sapiens.
Ray Comfort
#23. The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.
Herman E. Daly
#24. The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behavior it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and benevolence, nor for the preservation of human life or any other moral concern.
Herman E. Daly
#25. While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.
Herman E. Daly
#26. Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
Eddy Arnold
#27. There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.
Herman E. Daly
#29. We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.
Herman Daly
#30. Guess what? By virtue of being American, you are not innocent.
Ward Churchill
#31. Presumably, technology has made man increasingly independent of his environment. But, in fact, technology has merely substituted nonrenewable resources for renewables, which is more an increase than a decrease in dependence.
Herman E. Daly
#32. Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance.
James Gray
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