Toxic Waste Quotes

• Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.

  Rachel Cusk

  Lying, Orchids, Lovely

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• There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste. There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Oil, Rivers, People

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• We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.

  Richard J. Foster

  Air, Earth, Consumerism

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• The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue.... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighborhood.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Rights, America, Issues

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• One man's toxic waste is another man's potpourri.

  Jim Carrey

  Men, Potpourri, Another Man

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• With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?

  Yehuda Berg

  Irreparable Harm, Climate, Problem

  "What the @#$% is Going On?" by Yehuda Berg, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 10, 2010.

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• Have you been playing in toxic waste lately?

  James Patterson

  Toxic, Waste

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• You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town

  Nicholas Sparks

  Gossip, Towns, Small Town

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• I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  God's Creation, Toxic, Waste

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• I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world.... I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dancing, Singing, God's Creation

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.169, Random House

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• The U.S. population, a mere four or five percent of the world total, creates half the world's toxic waste.

  Helen Caldicott

  United States, Population, Half

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• I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it.

  Lawrence Summers

  Country, Thinking, Faces

  "Furor on Memo At World Bank". www.nytimes.com. February 7, 1992.

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• Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume as much of the world's resources as twenty children born in India. Deliberate and calculated waste is the central aspect of the American economy. We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.

  Richard J. Foster

  Children, Air, Average

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• What these people do here is obviously not working. They sit in their commuter traffic hour after hour. They make the earth a toxic waste dump.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Humanity

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• Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites

  Fred Thompson

  America, Cleaning, Good Intentions

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• How can you have in our country that is based upon liberality and liberation, be so anti-liberal. That's toxic waste to our consciousness. It's hard to be an American conservative because that's a contradiction in terms. Now if you take away freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of protest, and lock people out based upon their race, their language and their religion, that's conservative and fascist. America is a liberal idea.

  Jesse Jackson

  Country, Race, Ideas

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• The way I see it, living in New Jersey is a challenge, what with the toxic waste and the eighteen wheelers and the armed schizophrenics." Connie Rosolli

  Janet Evanovich

  Challenges, Way, Jersey

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• Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that... I’ve always though that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted, their air quality is probably vastly inefficiently low compared to Los Angeles or Mexico City.

  Lawrence Summers

  Country, Dirty, Thinking

  "Larry Summers’ War Against the Earth" by Jim Vallette, www.counterpunch.org. June 15, 1999.

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• Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against the current and travel upstream into the past. Or go with the flow and rush into the future. This was in a less cynical time before toxic waste dumping and pollution filled the waterway of Chronus with the detritus of empty hours wasted minutes years of repetition and time that has been killed.

  Harlan Ellison

  Fighting, Past, Years

  Harlan Ellison (1989). “Harlan Ellison's watching”

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• ... for nearly 40 years, while producing the now-banned industrial coolants known as PCBs at a local factory, Monsanto Co. routinely discharged toxic waste into a west Anniston creek and dumped millions of pounds of PCBs into oozing open-pit landfills. And thousands of pages of Monsanto documents-many emblazoned with warnings such as "CONFIDENTIAL: Read and Destroy"-show that for decades, the corporate giant concealed what it did and what it knew.

  Michael Grunwald

  Years, Environmental, Pounds

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• Fang: "Have you guys been playing in the toxic waste again? Been bitten by a radioactive spider? Struck by lightning? Drink a super-soldier serum?"

  James Patterson

  Guy, Soldier, Lightning

  "Maximum Ride: The Final Warning". Book by James Patterson, p. 43, 2008.

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• Have you guys been playing in toxic waste again?" Fang asked severely, putting his hands on his hips. Nudge giggled. "No." "Been bitten by a radioactive spider?" Fang went on. "Struck by lightning? Drink a super-soldier serum?" "No, no, no," said Iggy. He started reaching for things around the table, and his hand landed on Total. "You're black." "I prefer canine-American." said Total. "When's that pie coming? I'm starving.

  James Patterson

  Hands, Pie, Guy

  James Patterson (2008). “Maximum Ride: The Final Warning”, p.43, Random House

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• The human body was designed by a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area ?

  Robin Williams

  Running, Science, Body

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• The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove to be as far-reaching and important as any accomplishment of my administration. The reduction of the threat to America's health and safety from thousands of toxic-waste sites will continue to be an urgent but bitterly fought issue-another example for the conflict between the public welfare and the profits of a few private despoilers of our nation's environment.

  Jimmy Carter

  Health, Science, America

  Jimmy Carter (2013). “Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President”, p.591, University of Arkansas Press

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• There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste sites in three years than the previous administrations did in twelve. The environment is cleaner, and we have fought off the most vigorous assault on environmental protection since we began to protect the environment in 1970. We are moving in the right direction to the 21st century.

  William J. Clinton

  Drinking, Moving, Science

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