Silent Spring Chapter 9 Quotes & Sayings

Anything they have to advertise is something you don't need. — Kelly Coyne

The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. — Germaine Greer

Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy. — Gerald May

Her hand was small and had shape, not the usual bony garden tool you see on women nowadays. — Raymond Chandler

New gods arise when they are needed. — Josephine Winslow Johnson

A lot of people don't love their bank. — Sam Altman

I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me. — Eva Braun

Desrochers and Shimizu (Chapter 5) identify several shortcomings in Carson's Silent Spring that stem from major omissions. These include her silence on the benefits of chemical pesticides, such as higher agricultural production - which reduced hunger in a world of chronic starvation and limited the loss of wildlife habitat. Another flaw is her reliance on anecdotes rather than systematic analysis of available information. But perhaps the book's biggest failing is its discussion of cancer. — Roger E. Meiners

I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail. — Peter Matthiessen

We acknowledge, indeed, that Christ in human nature is called a Son, not like believers by gratuitous adoption merely, but the true, natural, and, therefore, only Son, this being the mark which distinguishes him from all others. Those of us who are regenerated to a new life God honours with the name of sons; the name of true and only-begotten Son he bestows on Christ alone. But how is he an only Son in so great a multitude of brethren, except that he possesses by nature what we acquire by gift? — John Calvin

Everybody has seen what happens when an ordinary person takes on a title or an office. When a new president is inaugurated, he takes on the awe and respect of his office and begins to act like a president. Ordinary men (and I would certainly hope, one day, ordinary women)...lose their old roles and become the president. — Kaleel Jamison

It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid. — Sean Lennon