Famous Quotes

"World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole."

Barry Commoner on War

More quotes about War

• "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."

  Albert Einstein on War

• "One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on War

• "The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."

  Albert Einstein on War

• "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on War

• "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender."

  Winston Churchill on War

More quotes by Barry Commoner

• "Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art."

• "Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art."

• "The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II."

• "Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it."

• "The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die."