It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.

The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss into which mankind can fall to annihilation.

the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.

It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.

We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that "we choose death."

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.