"It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here."

Social Issues, Right, Water

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"It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here."

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"In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state."

Charles de Montesquieu, French Philosopher

Social Issues, State

"Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness."

Daniel Goleman, American Author

Social Issues, Ugliness, Weight

"Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity."

Remy de Gourmont, French Novelist

Social Issues, Chastity

"It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here."

John Doerr, American Businessman

Social Issues, Right, Water

"The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand."

Nadine Gordimer, South African Novelist

Social Issues, Eye, Mind

"Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism."

Emma Goldman, Lithuanian Activist

Social Issues, Prostitution

"Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments."

Bob Goodlatte, American Politician

Social Issues, Cities, May, Now

"Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture, in a greedy culture, in a culture that uses so much of the world's resources. How do men and women, boys and girls, live lives of compassion, justice and love? And I think that's the visionary challenge for feminism and all other progressive movements for social change."

bell hooks, American Critic

Social Issues, Fame, Money, Celebrity, Well-Being

"Between shortage and absolute poverty an ocean of shades and gradations do emerge on the scale of deficiency. Be that as it may, each stage must find a mode to leave a door ajar for the sun to peer in and human warmth to radiate. [' Homeless down in the corner']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

Social Issues, Poverty, Hope, Survival, Hardship

"It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay."

Cory Doctorow, Canadian Journalist

Social Issues, Day, Games, Girls, Gold

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"It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing."

Money, Development, Losing

"It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks."

Growth, Content, Rights, Respect

"Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon."

Now, Right, Vanity, Writers

"People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age."

Age, Technology, People, Community

"There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity."

Content, Identity

"It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here."

Social Issues, Right, Water

"Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs."

Technology, Bugs, Eating, Living

"Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century."

Opportunity,

"They've found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world's great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible."

Family, Gain, World

"Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century."

Opportunity, Internet