“It has come to my attention, that air pollution is polluting the air!”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
Poems, Shadow of Time (2005)
“It has come to my attention, that air pollution is polluting the air!”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
John Trudell (1946–2015) Native American rights activist, musician, poet
"We are Power" speech (1980)
Frederick Franck (1909–2006) Dutch painter
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 63
“I cannot imagine any objective finding that CO2 is a pollutant. If that's true, God is a polluter.”
Joe Barton (1949) United States congressional representative from Texas
Congress and global warming, Reprint of article by Greenwire, 2006-08-07 http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/8/2/134832/8334,
“An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.”
James Otis Jr. (1725–1783) Lawyer in colonial Massachusetts
Argument Against the Writs of Assistance (1761)
William J. Baumol (1922–2017) American economist
Source: The theory of environmental policy, 1988, pp. 280–281; as cited in Vatn & Bromley (1997)
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.
Overtime (2009)
The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015)
Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645) Japanese martial artist, writer, artist
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Book No-Thing-ness
Context: Until you realise the true Way, whether in Buddhism or in common sense, you may think that things are correct and in order. However, if we look at things objectively, from the viewpoint of laws of the world, we see various doctrines departing from the true Way. Know well this spirit, and with forthrightness as the foundation and the true spirit as the Way. Enact strategy broadly, correctly and openly.
Then you will come to think of things in a wide sense and, taking the void as the Way, you will see the Way as void.
In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.
“Love should not be polluted with friendship.”
Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) German novelist
Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
“Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice