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Ian Christie

Ian Christie Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“...four in five of us are, to some extent, members of faith communities. If just a fraction of this huge body of believers were to connect their faith to sustainable development and act accordingly, with the support of their institutions, the gains could be world-changing”
-- Ian Christie

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“Religious leaders could play a significant role in making explicit the connections between current concerns for the environment and age-old teachings about our dependence on the natural world, and the dangers of greed and excess”
-- Ian Christie

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“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.”
“Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.”
“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”
“There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.”
“The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.”
“The catalyst that converts any physical location - any environment if you will - into a place, is the process of experiencing deeply. A place is a piece of the whole environment that has been claimed by feelings. Viewed simply as a life-support system, the earth is an environment. Viewed as a resource that sustains our humanity, the earth is a collection of places.”
“I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support that.”
“The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves â€“ in their separate, and individual capacities.”
“...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.”
“The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood.”

Ian Christie Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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