Norberg Quotes & Sayings

Life is trying to teach us one thing: to see the Eck, the Holy Spirit, in the eyes of all we meet — Harold Klemp

Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization. — Glenn Reynolds

A child born today is more likely to reach retirement age than his forebears were to live to their fifth birthday. — Johan Norberg

One of the best ways of reducing both CO2 emissions and poverty in the South would be to strengthen the existing, decentralised demographic pattern by keeping villages and small towns alive. This would allow communities to maintain social cohesion and a closer contact with the land. — Helena Norberg-Hodge

For the most part, I really love being in a collaborative thing. And in a collaborative thing if you have a singer as good as Sean Smith or Eddie Vedder, you kind of think, well, why don't you just go ahead and let them sing? People seem to really like it. — Stone Gossard

But that's me. I'm fat. It's not a cuss word. It's not an insult. At least it's not when I say it. So I always figure why not get it out of the way? — Julie Murphy

It's funny how a person who evinces bravery in the face of many dangers will become a pathetic example of abject timidity when it comes to putting something strange in his mouth. — Katherine Norberg

A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

But it's a whole lot easier to keep[secrets] when you've got someone else who knows breathing in the same room. Carrying them alone is like having a huge spiky weight digging into your shoulders and chest, a weight you can't shift even while you're sleeping. — Lilith Saintcrow

Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of choice. — Johan Norberg

Even in America, people have said again and again that they would be willing to sacrifice for a cleaner environment. — Helena Norberg-Hodge

Economic localization is the key to sustaining biological and cultural diversity - to sustaining life itself. The sooner we shift towards the local, the sooner we will begin healing our planet, our communities and ourselves. — Helena Norberg-Hodge

To dwell means to belong to a given place. — Christian Norberg-Schulz

Globalization, which attempts to amalgamate every local, regional, and national economy into a single world system, requires homogenizing locally adapted forms of agriculture, replacing them with an industrial system-centrally managed, pesticide-intensive, one-crop production for export-designed to deliver a narrow range of transportable foods to the world market. — Helena Norberg-Hodge

Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman. — Johan Norberg

Oh, who could have foretold That the heart grows old? — W.B.Yeats

Happiness, as a word, has become sort of equated with these smiling images on television, selling some nice cream or food product or something. It's seen a bit as being a stupid consumer. — Helena Norberg-Hodge

I think we should focus more, rather than less, on mobilising the middle classes. They often have a bit of time and money to contribute to change. — Helena Norberg-Hodge

If our starting point is a respect for nature and people, diversity is an inevitable consequence. If technology and the needs of the economy are our starting point, then we have what we are faced with today - a model of development that is dangerously distanced from the needs of particular peoples and places and rigidly imposed from the top down. — Helena Norberg-Hodge

I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes. — Washington Irving

It may seem absurd to believe that a 'primitive' culture in the Himalaya has anything to teach our industrialized society. But our search for a future that works keeps spiraling back to an ancient connection between ourselves and the earth, an interconnectedness that ancient cultures have never abandoned. — Helena Norberg-Hodge

I have seen that community and a close relationship with the land can enrich human life beyond all comparison with material wealth or technological sophistication. I have learned that another way is possible. — Helena Norberg-Hodge

Words are meager things, frail and fickle squandered by the privileged tongue — Olsfred James

It simply works. You do it twice a year. Who cares? And it balances my smoking and drinking. — Simon Cowell

At a deep psychological level, convincing young people that they will get the respect, admiration, love that they are looking for through consumerism is a manipulation of a deep human instinct to want to belong. — Helena Norberg-Hodge

Halfway down the bar, — Nicholas Sparks

As signs of climate instability increase, radical and rapid action is becoming ever more urgent. — Helena Norberg-Hodge

The uneven distribution of wealth in the world is due to the uneven distribution of capitalism. — Johan Norberg

Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the highest taxes the world has ever known. — Johan Norberg

Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity. — Johan Norberg

A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness. — Ben Shahn

What motivates me is the conviction that our problems are mainly a consequence of a lack of holistic understanding of the man-made system in which we are entwined. — Helena Norberg-Hodge

There's often a discussion about, 'Well, how do we know what happiness is? Is it real?' I've always argued that all of us know that there's a huge difference between how we feel when we feel happy and when we don't feel happy. — Helena Norberg-Hodge