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Childbearing [should be] a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license... All potential parents [should be] required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.
— David Brower, quoted by Dixy Lee Ray in Trashing the Planet


Loggers losing their jobs because of Spotted Owl legislation is, in my eyes, no different than people being out of work after the furnaces of Dachau shut down.
— Quoted by Dixy Lee Ray in her book Environmental Overkill


Loggers losing their jobs because of Spotted Owl legislation is, in my eyes, no different than people being out of work after the furnaces of Dachau shut down.
— Former Sierra Club executive director David Brower, quoted by Dixy Lee Ray in her book Environmental Overkill


The Sierra Club made the Nature Conservancy look reasonable. I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded Earth Island Institute to make Friends of the Earth look reasonable. Earth First! now makes us look reasonable. We’re still waiting for someone else to come along and make Earth First! look reasonable.
— David Brower, quoted by Ron Arnold and Alan Gottlieb in their book Trashing the Economy (1993)


All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
— Former Sierra Club executive director David Brower, as reported in the Los Angeles Times (1992)


The Sierra Club made the Nature Conservancy look reasonable. I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded Earth Island Institute to make Friends of the Earth look reasonable. Earth First! now makes us look reasonable. We’re still waiting for someone else to come along and make Earth First! look reasonable.
— Quoted by Ron Arnold and Alan Gottlieb in their book Trashing the Economy (1993)


All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
— Los Angeles Times (1992)


Childbearing [should be] a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license... All potential parents [should be] required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.
— Quoted by Dixy Lee Ray in Trashing the Planet


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