Maude Barlow Quotes

#1. Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.

Patricia Wentworth

#2. The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human kind.

Maude Barlow

#3. Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale.

Maude Barlow

#4. There is simply no way to overstate the water crisis of the planet today.

Maude Barlow

#5. No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities and political systems is urgent.

Maude Barlow

#6. We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

Alan Bennett

#7. If we, as individuals, want to keep control of our democracy - rather than have a government paid for by corporate interest checks - then we have to fight back now and make sure our system reflects the belief that people, not corporations, control our democracy.

Michael Bennet

#8. Water is being depleted many, many times faster than nature can replenish it.

Maude Barlow

#9. I've always felt from everyone I talk to that the fans feel like I'm tangible and they can talk to me and they know me.

Hulk Hogan

#10. There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.

Jack Kornfield

#11. Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time,

Maude Barlow

#12. The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History

Maude Barlow

#13. In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security.

Solomon Ortiz

#14. The autodecrement is not magical.

Larry Wall

#15. Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.

Milton H. Erickson

#16. Unlimited growth assumes unlimited resources, and this is the genesis of Ecocide.

Maude Barlow

#17. People wonder why they have so little of God when God has so little of them.

Tony Evans

#18. Robert Glennon is a leading-edge legal scholar and passionate water advocate whose thinking is central to an intense debate on the path forward to a water-secure world. I heartily recommend his provocative, information-packed, and highly readable new book Unquenchable.

Maude Barlow

#19. Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

George Eliot

#20. We are committed with our lives to building a different model and a different future for humanity, the Earth, and other species. We have envisaged a moral alternative to economic globalization and we will not rest until we see it realized.

Maude Barlow