Sanitation Quotes:

Sanitation is more important than Independence.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Independence, Important, Sanitation

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Drug, Done, Kind, Life Span, Sanitation

We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care.

- Kofi Annan

topic: Drinking, Water, Battle, Infectious Diseases, Sanitation

Cleanliness & good sanitation in schools is a matter of high importance.

- Narendra Modi

topic: School, Empowerment, India, Sanitation

You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.

- Matt Damon

topic: Water, Poverty, Solve, Sanitation

Sanitation should not be seen as a political tool, but should only be connected to patriotism (rashtrabhakti) and commitment to public health.

- Narendra Modi

topic: Commitment, Political, Tools, Sanitation, Public Health

Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

topic: May, Conservation, Consideration, Sanitation

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Being Yourself, Just Believe In Yourself, Inspirations Being Yourself

No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world.

- Sylvia Mathews Burwell

source: "The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation expands its sanitation programme" by Liz Ford, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2011.

topic: Past, Years, Innovation, Sanitation

Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.

- Melinda Gates

source: Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

topic: Men, Issues, World, Sanitation

My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.

- Bjorn Lomborg

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Drinking, Water, Suggestions, Clean Water, Sanitation

Water is one of the most basic of all needs - we cannot live for more than a few days without it. And yet, most people take water for granted. We waste water needlessly and don't realize that clean water is a very limited resource. More than 1 billion people around the world have no access to safe, clean drinking water, and over 2.5 billion do not have adequate sanitation service. Over 2 million people die each year because of unsafe water - and most of them are children!

- Robert Alan Aurthur

topic: Children, Drinking, Years, Taken For Granted, Clean Water

We live in a world, it's very hard for Americans to understand that every 20 seconds a kid dies, a kid under the age of five, right, dies somewhere on the Earth because of lack of access to clean water and sanitation. Every 20 seconds that happens on our planet. It's just very hard for us to relate to.

- Matt Damon

source: "Actor-screenwriter-producer Matt Damon, Part 1". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. December 11, 2012.

topic: Kids, Water, Age, Sanitation, Seconds

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

- Jim Yong Kim

source: "Climate change will 'lead to battles for food', says head of World Bank" by Larry Elliott, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2014.

topic: Water, Champion, Kind, Sanitation, Global Health

Cleanliness and sanitation were closest to Gandhiji's heart. We will launch a 'Clean India' campaign and by Gandhiji's 150th birth anniversary, all schools in the country should have toilets with separate toilets for girls.

- Narendra Modi

topic: Girl, Country, Heart, Closest, Sanitation

We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.95, Rajpal & Sons

topic: Village, Want, Inertia, Sanitation

Social justice is what faces you in the morning. It is awakening in a house with adequate water supply, cooking facilities and sanitation. It is the ability to nourish your children and send them to school where their education not only equips them for employment but reinforces their knowledge and understanding of their cultural inheritance. It is the prospect of genuine employment and good health: a life of choices and opportunity, free from discrimination.

- Mick Dodson

topic: Morning, Children, School, Knowledge And Understanding, Sanitation

Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds.

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

topic: Children, Water, Parks, Sanitation, Everglades

When you see people that lived their purpose and sacrificed, who are everyday people - teachers, sanitation workers, and just people from all walks of life - that said, "I'm standing up for what I believe in. I'm standing up for my community." That reaffirms what you can do.

- Common

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Teacher, Believe, People, Sanitation

Over 1 billion people have no access to clean drinking water, and more than 2.9 billion have no access to sanitation services. The reality is that a child dies every eight seconds from drinking contaminated water, and the sanitation trend is getting sharply worse, mostly because of the worldwide drift of the rural peasantry to urban slums.

- Marq de Villiers

topic: Children, Drinking, Reality, Sanitation, Clean Drinking Water

It makes me angry to think that . . . female sanitation workers will spend their days doing a job most of their co-workers think they can't handle, and then they will go home and do another job most of their co-workers don't want.

- Anna Quindlen

source: Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.34, Ballantine Books

topic: Jobs, Home, Thinking, Sanitation, Make Me Angry

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

- John Cleese

source: "Fictional character: Reg". "Life of Brian", www.imdb.com. 1979.

topic: Wine, Order, Medicine, Sanitation, Public Health

I try to teach my son about sanitation, especially when handling foods like chicken that could be dangerous. I remind him to wash his hands all the time. When my son cooks with me, he stands on a step stool so he can reach the stove. I teach him about safety and fire.

- Emeril Lagasse

topic: Son, Fire, Hands, Sanitation, Stools

What have the Romans ever done for us?

- John Cleese

topic: Done, Sanitation, Monty, Rhetorical Question

The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.

- Bjorn Lomborg

topic: Drinking, Years, Kyoto, Clean Water, Sanitation

When a livestock farmer is willing to "practice complexity"-to choreograph the symbiosis of several different animals, each of which has been allowed to behave and eat as it evolved to-he will find he has little need for machinery, fertilizer, and, most strikingly, chemicals. He finds he has no sanitation problem or any of the diseases that result from raising a single animal in a crowded monoculture and then feeding it things it wasn't designed to eat. This is perhaps the greatest efficiency of a farm treated as a biological system: health.

- Michael Pollan

topic: Animal, Practice, Different, Monoculture, Symbiosis

People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti.

- Patti Smith

source: "Patti Smith Remembers Life With Mapplethorpe". Interview with Deborah Amos, www.npr.org. January 15, 2010.

topic: Mean, People, Hey, Sanitation

One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like an infantile retard.

- Mike Tyson

topic: Morning, Men, Hands, Infantile, Retard

Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]. Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm, it's destructive-type situations like you saw in New Orleans with Katrina. You're increasing the frequency of that stuff in low-lying areas fairly dramatically.

- Bill Gates

source: "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

topic: Katrina, Delta, Backing Up, Bangladesh, Sanitation

If you look at Detroit, that mayor, it's been a train wreck for 40 years, the population has gone from 2 million to 700,000. This Mayor comes in, and he talked about streetlights, sanitation, jobs, policing, schools, affordable housing. He's doing it all, and it's growing for the first time in 30 years. Literally, one man. But that one man couldn't do it without business. And business couldn't have done it without a political environment where they wanted to improve things. If you had an antibusiness environment there, it would still be down there.

- Jamie Dimon

source: Source: uk.businessinsider.com

topic: School, Men, Political, Sanitation

Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is no longer with the disease organisms that once were omnipresent; sanitation, better living conditions, and new drugs have given us a high degree of control over infectious disease. Today we are concerned with a different kind of hazard that lurks in our environment-a hazard we ourselves have introduced into our world as our modern way of life has evolved.

- Rachel Carson

source: Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Our World, Yesterday, Drug, Infectious Diseases, Living Conditions

Ethical globalization is possible if only we can hold governments and business accountable for respecting human rights, not just in the traditional political and legal realms, but in everything - health, education and the other social determinants of health - rights to food, safe water, sanitation and so on.

- Mary Robinson

source: Source: www.who.int

topic: Rights, Government, Health Education, Sanitation, Government And Business

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.

- Elizabeth Blackwell

source: Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.151, Library of Alexandria

topic: Medicine, Goal, Foundation, Sanitation, Florence Nightingale

Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Matter, Decorum, Should, Sanitation

You are doing something over here and over there someone is telling you a joke, or giving you an important piece of information about sanitation, and no matter how weird the other subject is, there is a connection, or you can make a connection. I’ve always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and how you place those sentences together changes the whole mood of a history.

- Michael Ondaatje

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Giving, Important, Together, Sanitation

Take agriculture, where we haven't done much, or sanitation; saying, "okay, we will be able to make a really huge effort there." It really energized the foundation and half of what we've gotten done in this last decade is because Warren [Buffett] trusted us.

- Bill Gates

source: Source: www.geekwire.com

topic: Buffett, Sanitation, Warren Buffet

Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.

- Bjorn Lomborg

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Cutting, Water, Hiv, Sanitation, Health And Education

The Hope, Love & Healing necklace is the perfect embodiment of what we are trying to bring to Haiti through safe and sustainable housing, sanitation solutions, and water filtration devices.

- Patricia Arquette

topic: Healing, Perfect, Water, Hope Love, Sanitation

The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.

- John Perkins

source: John Perkins (2004). “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.12, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

topic: War, Iraq, Water, Military Spending, Sanitation

Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women, where they start to get education about their rights, about clean water and sanitation, about how to have a healthy birth. You can bring in all kinds of education to them that way.

- Melinda Gates

source: Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

topic: Rights, Self, Water, Sanitation

I don't mind payin' for the police and for streets and sanitation, or road work, bridges, trains, food subsidies and welfare. But I don't wanna pay for bombs to fight proxy wars in the middle of nowhere against enemies in the night.

- Lupe Fiasco

source: "Lupe Fiasco: 'I have the right to speak out'". Interview with Angus Batey, www.theguardian.com. Mach 3, 2011.

topic: War, Fighting, Night, Sanitation, Proxy

I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.

- Boy George

source: "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

topic: London, Revolutionary, Punk, Sanitation

A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

source: Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.698, Best Books on

topic: War, Lying, Cities, Sanitation, Preventive War

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

- Denzel Washington

topic: Book, Office, Unemployment, Post Office, Sanitation

When women and men have approximately equal life expectancies, it seems to be because women die not only in childbirth (fewer than thought) but about equal from diseases; poor sanitation and water; inadequate healthcare; and diseases of malnutrition. In industrialized societies, early deaths are caused more by diseases triggered by stress, which breaks down the immune system. It is since stress has become the key factor that men have died so much sooner than women.

- Warren Farrell

source: Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

topic: Stress, Men, Keys, Malnutrition, Life Expectancy

With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.

- Bob Brown

topic: Children, War, School, Clean Water, Sanitation

Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.

- Peter Singer

source: "Tackling poverty in hard times" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2009.

topic: Country, Jobs, Children, Sanitation, Free Education