8+ Ronald Wright Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Ronald Wright quotes and sayings.

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up. — Ronald Wright

the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine. — Ronald Wright

Capitalism lures us onward like the mechanical hare before the greyhounds, insisting that the economy is infinite and sharing therefore irrelevant. Just enough greyhounds catch a real hare now and then to keep the others running till they drop. In the past it was only the poor who lost this game; now it is the planet. — Ronald Wright

Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal and oil if we burned them gradually, but how long can it withstand a blaze of consumption so frenzied that the dark size of this planet glows like a fanned ember in the night of space. — Ronald Wright

Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence so colossal that error is a luxury we can no longer afford. The world has grown too small to forgive us any big mistakes. — Ronald Wright

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do. — Ronald Wright

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature. — Ronald Wright

America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she was a widow. — Ronald Wright