Commoner Quotes

Yachts are the closest a commoner can get to sovereignty. - Charles Simonyi

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole. - Barry Commoner

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think. - Barry Commoner

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production. - Barry Commoner

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology. - Barry Commoner

What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are. - Barry Commoner

The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment. - Barry Commoner

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading. - Barry Commoner