Quotes About Throw Away Society

#1. In the long term, it will be the human race that must take responsibility for the development of sustainable life-styles and economies that are not insistent on continuing growth and a throw away society.

David De Kretser

#2. We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.

Myles Munroe

#3. Hope will never be silent.

Harvey Milk

#4. When you lose someone important, not everything makes sense. Being angry was easier than being hurt. Being alone was easier than letting people get too close.

Audrey Bell

#5. More than 30 years ago, when I had embarked upon the fight against child labour, it was not even considered an issue worth any discussion. It was accepted as a way of life in India, much like it was in other countries. Today, no country or business or society can throw this issue away.

Kailash Satyarthi

#6. In India, the eldest has the most responsibility and the crown goes to him. The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could 'most talent' be determined? So Indian society settled on age.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#7. Now, by and large, people are recording material to put on YouTube. I have a theory that YouTube is, in the end, the #1 media for musicians. Which is strange, because there's a visual associated with it.

Travis Morrison

#8. We live in a disposable society. We throw so much away. But it doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from the planet and it comes from future generations' lives.

Julia Butterfly Hill

#9. If a man's got talent and guts to buck society, he's obviously above average. You want to hold on to him. You straighten him out and turn him into a plus value. Why throw him away? Do that enough and all you've got left are the sheep.

Alfred Bester

#10. Democracy in China is maybe like a democracy that is separated, distributed. But in the West, maybe it's something you go to the supermarket to buy.

Wu Shanzhuan

#11. Beauty fades. But a pain in the ass is forever.

Renee Ahdieh

#12. I've always thought my poems told stories.

Douglas Dunn