QUOTES by Barry Gardiner
Find most favourite and famour Authors from A.A Milne to Zoe Kravitz.
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
Pluralism has been the driving fact behind political theory now since the Copernican revolution and the wars of religion that were spawned from it.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
The more we engage with others, the more we find people with whom we do not share the values and truths that we consider so fundamental. In virtual places, by contrast, we are able to select the precise individuals with whom we associate to ensure that we obtain the affirmation we require.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
We need to be investing in the low-carbon technologies that are creating the apprenticeships and skilled jobs of the future.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
Financial decision-makers at every level are recognising that fossil fuel investments risk their returns being undermined by stranded assets.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
Labour must evince a positive vision for the future of our country outside the E.U. One that is consistent with the leave voters' objectives, without sacrificing our rights and protections, as the Conservatives threaten to do.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
Most trade agreements arise from a desire to liberalise trade - making it easier to sell goods and services into one another's markets. Brexit will not.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
Treaties negotiated with foreign powers create binding obligations on future generations that cannot be repealed in the way that domestic law can. As a consequence, the most rigorous process should be in place to scrutinise such treaties before they ever come to be ratified.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
Labour believes that every trade deal should come before parliament for a full debate on the floor of the House of Commons, with a vote at the end of that debate.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
MPs should be able to debate, amend and approve a mandate for the negotiation of any trade agreement before talks start, based on an independent impact assessment of what social, economic and environmental risks might be expected.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
The Tories must stop focusing on their ideological obsession with a hard Brexit and their internal party divisions and start focusing on what is best for our country and our economy. Their absurd proposal that the U.K. should become the E.U.'s tariff collector is neither practical nor palatable across the Channel.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
Normally I am clear beforehand about which single proposal in a binary choice I am going to vote for.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
It appears that President Trump wishes to disrupt the global multilateral trading system as much as possible.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
World leaders need to work together through the rules-based system of the WTO to tackle unfair practices, including the widespread dumping of steel on world markets at less than market price.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
Dictators have an old trick to assess the strength of their opposition: they say something patently untrue, and then look to see who mindlessly repeats it. Those who do, they recognise as their true supporters.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
The Tories' favoured trade deals post-Brexit are likely to make regional inequality worse, by focusing on the best deal for the City of London at the expense of smaller firms across the country.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
A Brexit that works for Britain needs to work for small businesses and must ensure that our future trade deals don't just work for big business.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
Science tells us we need to keep the majority of fossil fuels in the ground, and that we must urgently invest in renewable energy, and other alternative industries. Doing so would create millions of jobs, ensure a fair transition for fossil fuel workers into new industries, and avert the most catastrophic climate breakdown.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
We must commit to a positive programme of ocean recovery to combat the effects of climate breakdown, and boost our oceans' capacity to tackle climate change.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
Thanks to David Attenborough and 'Blue Planet 2,' we've become aware of the damage to our oceans from plastic pollution. We now know to use textile shopping bags instead of plastic, reuse coffee-cups and refuse polystyrene ones, and avoid plastic straws when ordering a drink at the bar.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
As the oceans get hotter, corals also become heat-stressed and expel the algae that live on their skeletons, resulting in coral bleaching events that can wipe out entire reefs. This destroys the habitat that supports a quarter of all marine life.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
As we pump greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide, making the seawater acidic and hostile for shellfish and corals.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
Acidisation isn't benign - like fracking, it can pose risks to groundwater sources, and runs counter to the urgency with which we must shift away from fossil fuels.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
Doing nothing to stop national parks being drilled for oil isn't what climate leadership looks like.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
We recognise the link between environmental failure and social injustice. When the energy sector is privatised and deregulated, it not only tends to pollute more, it also charges the poorest more per unit!
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
We recognise the need for government to provide a clear and stable regulatory framework so as to release the investment power of business in order to deliver progressive public policy.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
Climate change must be approached as an opportunity to transition our economy to a zero carbon future. Business understands this even when governments don't.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
The most important thing to understand about Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change agreement is, whilst it undeniably damages the rest of the world, it does most damage to America itself.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
The direct risks from climate change are obvious: as changing weather patterns cause extremes of flood and drought, hurricanes and typhoons. These damage the physical infrastructure of buildings and bridges roads and railways. They are violent and disruptive.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
In order to properly measure the impacts of climate change on our Financial system they must first be identified and disclosed.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
As the cost of renewables plummets, the clean energy transition is increasingly driven by the business case.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
The costs of solar energy across the world have come down so fast that its growth as a cheap, clean energy source has been exponential.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
Even if Trump leaves the Paris Agreement or the U.N. climate process entirely, the issue will be unavoidable at G7 and G20 level.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner
U.K. aid spending in India is that it ensures that we are able to work with our partners to develop their markets, business and enterprise, to boost labour standards and rights and, ultimately, to boost the incomes of the poorest which, in the long term, boosts demand for British goods and services.
Quote by -Barry Gardiner