The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield on…

- Maurice Strong

We're either going to save the world or no one will be saved.

- Maurice Strong

Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally

- Maurice Strong

We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.

- Maurice Strong

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance acc…

- Maurice Strong

The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.

- Maurice Strong

Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that curre…

- Maurice Strong

Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?

- Maurice Strong

Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decid…

- Maurice Strong