“We can’t save the world without food. Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.”
David Brin book Earth
Part II (p. 72)
Earth (1990)
The Philistine http://books.google.com/books?id=b0kLAQAAIAAJ&q=%22The+graveyards+are+full+of+people+the+world+could+not+do+without%22&pg=PA190#v=onepage (May 1907)
“We can’t save the world without food. Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.”
David Brin book Earth
Part II (p. 72)
Earth (1990)
“The world is full of good people who do bad things!”
Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer
Robertson Davies book The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks
The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947)
“The little graveyard where my people are!
So small the window frames the whole of it.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
1910s, Home Burial (1914)
“There's not much you can do in this world without people getting to know.”
Bernard MacLaverty (1942) Irish writer
Short story, "Across the street", p.132
Short Stories, The Great Profundo and Other Stories (1987)
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Variant: The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
Hal Varian (1947) American economist
The structure of the Internet http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Future-of-the-Internet-IV/Part-4Architecture.aspx?r=1, a report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2010. <br class="br">"Part 1: A review of responses to a tension pair about whether Google will make people stupid."
