Top 40 Quotes by Barry Commoner

No action is without its side effects.

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.

I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

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

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.