Gus Hall Quotes

Reclaim our environment from those who would destroy it with their predatory economic behavior.

The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.

Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?

I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz.

No-one wants polluted air, water or land, denuded forests or extinct animal species. But the error most people make is to trust the legislature to prevent these tragedies. What they don’t realize is how big a role the legislature has played historically in causing environmental destruction.

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

If we allow the destruction of the environment, we can see the terrorists have utterly won, and are destroying the future of our children and grandchildren. We must not let that happen.

Capitalism is destroying Mother Earth, and to destroy Mother Earth is to destroy humanity.

In America, I don't know how much longer the environment is going to exist. I sort of strongly believe that we're in danger.

If we are really serious about protecting the environment, the discharge pipes and stacks of industry would all plug directly into their intake side, and costs would not be externalized to a voiceless environment.

A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, "A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it." People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.

Many of the environmental rules not only fail to protect the natural environment, they actually increase the damage.

We're still expecting capitalism to solve problems: 'Maybe if we sell enough oil, we can give some profits to an environmental agency!' Capitalism isn't a moral system.

Very urgent measures need to be taken, and without much delay, in dealing with the ongoing destruction of the environment.

Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.

It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.

I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing in all of it if you expect to make a living.

We will have no jobs if we have no planet.

I will be very sad when global warming and toxins kill off all the toads and frogs and salamanders. Here's hoping we, as humans, figure out a way to be less stupid.

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.

Unfortunately, The End of Nature turns out to be correct, although I wish it were not so. The only places that I was incorrect was, as with environmental science at the time, the estimation of the speed at which we see the effects of global warming.

I would hate for climate change to be accepted simply because everyone was dying.

We're destroying the planet, and the planet rebels.