Merce Cunningham Quotes

The world is pretty messed up.

I worry about the world.

My generation has left the globe in a mess.

The world is ending, make no mistake. It's coming to an end. This can't go on for much longer. Capitalism has to fall.

Like anybody, I look around at the world that we live in, and I find it hard to be completely positive about everything that's going on.

The world is a mess.

I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.

White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.

Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people.

I do think we're on the edge of a terrifying world, and that many young people know that but don't know how to talk about it.

I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.

If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.

Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.

There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world.

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?

The coal industry held the title deed to the future and devoured the land, people, and culture with a Satanic appetite.

With all the crap that's going on around the world, you kind of want to do what you can to protect the ones you love.

There's so much out in the world that is not good for the environment.

Even the wealth of the U.S. cannot protect against the levels of environmental destruction that we are unleashing.

The giant industries that are polluting our planet as well as violating human rights worldwide are the ones nearest and dearest to the hearts of American politicians.

There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list.

If the world population continues to increase at the same rate, we will destroy the species.

We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth.

The state of the world petrifies me as much as it does everyone else at the moment. Anyone who comes to my show expecting incisive political analysis will be deeply disappointed.