"The right hon. Gentleman should be aware that, two weeks ago, I had an interesting meeting with an environmental campaigning group from the Soviet Union who openly admitted that the industrial policies followed in the past by the Soviet Union and many countries in central and eastern Europe had done a great deal of environmental damage. The difference is that those people felt that they had the power to change the policies to stop the destruction of their own environment. The policies of free-market economies which the right hon. Gentleman propounds have led to the pollution of the North sea and the Irish sea, the destruction of the rain forests in Brazil and Malaysia and long-term serious environmental damage by multinational companies all over the southern countries of this planet."
React to this quote
More by Jeremy Corbyn
See allResonant Thoughts
"The word 'policy' generally refers to the principles that govern action directed towards given ends. Any study of policy therefore should concern itself with three things — what we want , how we get i…"
"I believe that the poet is necessarily an anarchist, and that he must oppose all organized conceptions of the State, not only those which we inherit from the past, but equally those which are imposed …"
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"Adolescents are simply those people who haven't as yet chosen between childhood and adulthood. For as long …"
— Gene Wolfe"Besides my religious commitment, the greatest single factor that has enabled me to pursue my business and p…"
— Preston Manning"No law can give freedom to a people which is dependent upon some power or authority outside themselves for …"
— Keir Hardie"America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no prote…"
— Peter Kropotkin"This is our fucking city! And nobody is gonna dictate our freedom. Stay Strong!"
— David Ortiz"Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuous revol…"
— Ronald Reagan