Quotes by Maurice Strong

About Maurice Strong:

Maurice F. Strong is a Canadian businessman specialising in oil and mineral resources, and a former diplomat representing Canada as under-secretary general of the United Nations. Strong's first name is pronounced "Mor'ris" with the accent on the first syllable.
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Most of my supporters are people who actually know me. I just continue to do the best I can and I don't bother to try and respond to every little bit because the best response is just to keep on doing what you think is right.

Maurice Strong

Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

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I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.

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I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world.

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Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

Maurice Strong

Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.

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Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.

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Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.

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So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up.

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The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.

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The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

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We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world.

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We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.

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We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.

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We're either going to save Ihe world or no one will be saved.

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Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.

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What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

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Anyone who is seriously interested in me would usually do a little more homework and realise that the extreme criticisms are almost exclusively ideologically based.

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I am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I don't have any role at the U.N, but I'm still quite cooperative with a number of U.N. activities, in particular to China and that region.

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My son is the main shareholder of my company, and I help him explore some of those opportunities that are related to things I know about, such as energy and the environment. But I'm active because I can't think of anything else to do in my so-called ...

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Author Bio

  • NameMaurice Strong
  • DescriptionCanadian businessman
  • BornApril 29, 1929
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionEntrepreneur
  • AwardsJawaharlal Nehru Award For International Understanding; Companion Of The Order Of Canada; Four Freedoms Award - Freedom From Want; Tyler Prize For Environmental Achievement