Robert Carlyle
Actor
"I rant and rave about noise pollution."
Pollution quotes
Pollution
46 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Susan Sontag
Essayist, Critic, Activist
"Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution."
Russell Kirk
Political Theorist, Author
"...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside."
Ronald Reagan
Politician, Actor
"Trees cause pollution."
Barack Obama
Politician
"The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now. And even if we Americans do our part, the planet will slowly keep warming for some time to come."
Explore further
Topics related to Pollution
Browse quotes that often appear alongside pollution — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Pollution quotes (page 1 of 3)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Nature's solution to pollution is dilution."
Read quote
7 likes
"There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises."
Read quote
7 likes
"Pollution should never be the price of prosperity."
Read quote
6 likes
"Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends."
Read quote
6 likes
"No country can hide from the dangers of carbon pollution"
Read quote
3 likes
"What we've often seen is that when we Americans say, look, we've got to reduce pollution, business - some businesses complain about it, but almost every time, it's turned out to be easier and cheaper and accomplished faster, and they've gained confidence, and then we go farther."
Read quote
3 likes
"There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure."
Read quote
3 likes
"If you sell me a car, we have perhaps made a good bargain for ourselves. But there are effects of this transaction on others, which we do not take into account. There is more pollution, the price of gas goes up, there is more congestion."
Read quote
3 likes