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1. "Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs." ~ Maurice Strong
2. "So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up." ~ Maurice Strong
3. "The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them." ~ Maurice Strong
4. "We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance." ~ Maurice Strong
5. "We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth." ~ Maurice Strong
6. "We're either going to save Ihe world or no one will be saved." ~ Maurice Strong
7. "We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits." ~ Maurice Strong
8. "I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world." ~ Maurice Strong
9. "I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following." ~ Maurice Strong
10. "Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities." ~ Maurice Strong
11. "After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital." ~ Maurice Strong
12. "We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse." ~ Maurice Strong
13. "Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child." ~ Maurice Strong
14. "What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now." ~ Maurice Strong
15. "If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset." ~ Maurice Strong
16. "Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway." ~ Maurice Strong
17. "The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development." ~ Maurice Strong
18. "A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns." ~ Maurice Strong
19. "I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged." ~ Maurice Strong
20. "Toyota was the first to put a commercial fuel cell powered car on the road, and I have no doubt that Toyota will continue to be in the front lines in the development of competitive fuel cell vehicles." ~ Maurice Strong
21. "I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs." ~ Maurice Strong
22. "Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development." ~ Maurice Strong
23. "I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations." ~ Maurice Strong

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