Norberg Quotes

#1. What motivates me is the conviction that our problems are mainly a consequence of a lack of holistic understanding of the man-made system in which we are entwined.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#2. One of the best ways of reducing both CO2 emissions and poverty in the South would be to strengthen the existing, decentralised demographic pattern by keeping villages and small towns alive. This would allow communities to maintain social cohesion and a closer contact with the land.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#3. It's funny how a person who evinces bravery in the face of many dangers will become a pathetic example of abject timidity when it comes to putting something strange in his mouth.

Katherine Norberg

#4. As signs of climate instability increase, radical and rapid action is becoming ever more urgent.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#5. Pain travels pretty well.

Christopher Moore

#6. I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick, their memory as strong, and their docility in every respect equal to that of white children.

Benjamin Franklin

#7. To dwell means to belong to a given place.

Christian Norberg-Schulz

#8. Happiness, as a word, has become sort of equated with these smiling images on television, selling some nice cream or food product or something. It's seen a bit as being a stupid consumer.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#9. I have seen that community and a close relationship with the land can enrich human life beyond all comparison with material wealth or technological sophistication. I have learned that another way is possible.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#10. Keep your eye on the prey

Erin Hunter

#11. Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.

Louise Fitzhugh

#12. Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the highest taxes the world has ever known.

Johan Norberg

#13. I liked performing, but not the struggle.

Irene Cara

#14. The uneven distribution of wealth in the world is due to the uneven distribution of capitalism.

Johan Norberg

#15. I think we should focus more, rather than less, on mobilising the middle classes. They often have a bit of time and money to contribute to change.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#16. There's often a discussion about, 'Well, how do we know what happiness is? Is it real?' I've always argued that all of us know that there's a huge difference between how we feel when we feel happy and when we don't feel happy.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#17. A child born today is more likely to reach retirement age than his forebears were to live to their fifth birthday.

Johan Norberg

#18. Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of choice.

Johan Norberg

#19. Even in America, people have said again and again that they would be willing to sacrifice for a cleaner environment.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#20. At a deep psychological level, convincing young people that they will get the respect, admiration, love that they are looking for through consumerism is a manipulation of a deep human instinct to want to belong.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#21. No" is a complete sentence.

Anne Lamott

#22. MARIE I'm saying that the right man for you might be out there right now and if you don't grab him, someone else will, and you'll have to spend the rest of your life knowing that someone else is married to your husband.

Nora Ephron

#23. When liberals say 'family', they mean 'Big Brother in Washington.' When we say 'family,' we mean 'honor thy father and mother.'

Ronald Reagan

#24. Economic localization is the key to sustaining biological and cultural diversity - to sustaining life itself. The sooner we shift towards the local, the sooner we will begin healing our planet, our communities and ourselves.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#25. I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal.

Jane Austen

#26. In his diabolic solitude, only the possibility of love could awake the libertine to perfect, immaculate terror. It is in this holy terror of love that we find, in both men and women themselves, the source of all opposition to the emancipation of women.

Angela Carter

#27. They say you should always teach a person's name first. That way, even if they never learn to write anything else, they'll always have something.

Ally Condie

#28. Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman.

Johan Norberg

#29. Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.

Johan Norberg

#30. I'm probably more of a new man. I'm not particularly alpha. 'Nourish and nurture' are my watchwords as opposed to 'search and destroy'.

Richard Armitage

#31. Because if there was one thing Cress knew about heroes, it was that they could not resist a damsel in distress.
And she was nothing if not in distress.

Marissa Meyer

#32. A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation ...

Robert Green Ingersoll