George Monbiot Quotes

You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.

Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum of human misery.

Cars are the reason we, you know, people live or die.

I have a 15-passenger van, which is not fun to drive in L.A. ever.

I hate cars.

I am a guy who likes those who drive through red lights.

I had to take driving lessons in New York, which were really weird because it's not the safest thing in the world.

In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.

I speed up past mirrors.

I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.

I cannot emphasize just how dangerous it is cycling in the city. Especially now. Even though it is against the law to do this, you'll see people texting while they drive.

In California, the lines on the road are just a suggestion. They're in the left lane with the left indicator on, so naturally it's time to turn right! Are you kidding me? In your Prius? I know, you're saving the Earth by trying to kill the people!

I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen.

I have a 100-mile round trip commute on some of the nations' busiest roads and enjoy every minute of it.

I don't like to drive. I don't like the aggressiveness that goes along with driving.

When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs that aren't factored in to the pump price - among them congestion, pollution, and increased risk of accidents.

Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage.

A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour.

Well, it is so difficult right now when you look out on the road and how fast people go and the more and more cars you see out there, for teenagers, you'd think a kid that literally, a few years before, was sitting back in a car seat in the back seat is now behind the wheel.

I'm sure people are shocked when they see a guy speeding and cutting them off and having road rage while in a Prius.

I have a lot of road rage. Mostly with the rickshaw and cab drivers trying to cut me; it's the traffic. Grrrr!

My least favorite thing about New York is probably the traffic. I hate it. The people are such aggressive drivers here, they're horrible.

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

The driver of a carriage or the rider of a bicycle along the streets of a city is bound to anticipate that passengers on foot may be at the crossings and to take reasonable care not to injure them. If he fails to look out for them, or when he sees, does not, so far as is in his power, avoid them, he is chargeable with negligence