Philippe Cousteau, Jr. quotes

“Young people have, truly, the potential to change the world. Not when they get older - today.”
-- Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

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“I could cut my leg off. I could cut my arm off. I could gouge an eye out. I'd still probably survive. But not very well. And that's what we're doing to the oceans. It's the life-support system of this planet. We've been dumping in it. We've been polluting it. We've been destroying it for decades. And we're essentially maiming ourselves.”
-- Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

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“I'll never be able to fill my father's or grandfather's shoes, but hopefully I can stand on their shoulders and reach farther.”
-- Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

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“I believe that the only true agents of change on a large scale, in this country or anywhere, are young people.”
-- Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

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“I've seen young people raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix a problem in their community. I've seen young people raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to dig wells in Africa. I've seen young people pass laws, largely impacting their communities. They do have the power to change the world.”
-- Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

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“The great news is that overwhelmingly far more than adults, youth already care about the environment. Young people are recognizing that we have largely made a mess of things with respect to the environment [and] that the burden to fix it will fall on them.”
-- Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

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“I've seen a lot of doom and gloom and depressing things, and it's [the] youth that give me hope.”
-- Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

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“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”

“Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.”

Source : A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press

“Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

“I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.”

“Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.”

“How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?”

“The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.”

“If you get to a point where something happens today to stress you out, take a breath & center your thoughts on peace. Ignored thoughts die.”

“Today, ... anything you can come up with that works is worth trying.”