Dams Quotes

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justice Progress Law Become Dams Dangerously Law And Order Structured Purpose Fail Block Exist Establishing Order Social Social Progress Flow
In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I'm against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically unfeasible. They're ecologically unsustainable. And they're hugely undemocratic. Arundhati Roy
Problems Big Think Dams Per Economically Unsustainable California Because Huge Hugely Against
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. Bertrand Russell
Age Power Ideology Dams Machine Proletariat Machine Age Stations Admiration Part Like Aeroplanes
We have over 30 dams in Puerto Rico, and I think only one works. We're here in the rain forest, and we have plenty of water. It's insane. Eduardo Bhatia
Rain Water Think Dams Insane Plenty Only Over Forest Rico Works Puerto Here Puerto Rico
In 1975, the collapse of a cascade of Chinese dams during a flood killed a hundred and seventy-one thousand people, but the event is rarely discussed, and the names of the victims are largely unrecorded today. Evan Osnos
Today People Dams Hundred Collapse Thousand Rarely Cascade Names Discussed Victims Chinese Event Flood Largely
Human civilization has been changing the Earth's environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts. Jamais Cascio
Water Wind Dams Changing Our Earth Deforestation Has-Been Civilization Detriment Environment Droughts Alter Occasionally Been Often Human Human Civilization Patterns Creating Cycles Even Deserts Millennia
Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation. Ron Kind
Old Dams System Locks River Over Most Mississippi Mississippi River Repair Years Upper Rehabilitation Many Serious Need
Though dams and artificial lakes can have significant negative environmental impacts, when carefully considered, mitigated, and managed, the benefits of hydropower often outweigh these costs. Seth Moulton
Environmental Benefits Negative Carefully Dams Considered Though Significant Impacts Costs Outweigh Artificial Often Lakes
Why dictator Musharraf, raising the slogan of 'Pakistan First,' did not think about construction of Dasu and Basha dams? Shehbaz Sharif
Construction First Think Dams Slogan About Dictator Did Pakistan Why Raising
Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation. Stephen Ambrose
Made Dams Our Wildlife Recreation Rivers Useful Less Harmed
There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special. Valerie Jarrett
Work Government Construction People Country Important Dams Back Our Vitally Roads Putting Makes Expect American Infrastructure Certain Certain Things Special Bridges Things
As beavers build dams and bees build hives, human beings have spears. Or take the high intelligence of human beings, the ability to make plans, to transmit information - that was also there before, but that, together with the tools, was not enough to make man special. Yuval Noah Harari
Man Together Intelligence Build Before Dams Enough Tools High Ability Take Also Make Beaver Bees Human Human Beings Information Transmit Plans Spears Special Beings

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