Our World Quotes - Page 11

• Do we have to wait until a disaster overwhelms us before we make the radical changes necessary to protect our world for future generations? That is the vital challenge of sustainable development. If we act now there is much that can be saved which will otherwise disappear forever

  John Gummer

  Future, Waiting, Forever

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• Sustainable development: Holding our world in trust for our children

  Michael Meacher

  Children, Future, Vision

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• We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return to Western culture after time in desert, mountain or forest, I discover how we have filled our world with a multiplicity of noises, a symphony of forgetfulness that keeps our won thoughts and realizations, feelings and intuitions out of audible range.

  Joan Halifax

  Symphony, Silence, Simplicity

  Joan Halifax (2007). “The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We carry in our worlds that flourish, our worlds that have failed.

  Christopher Okigbo

  World

  Christopher Okigbo (1986). “Collected poems”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Different, Earth, Shapes

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• The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same.

  Carl Jung

  Upheaval, World, Consciousness

  Carl Gustav Jung (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning and comprehensive document, back through the years, his contributions to the science of our world society remain invaluable. One reverently speaks of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin—the shapers of humanity’s richest present and future.

  Paul Robeson

  Years, Humanity, Modern Life

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• A child born in a wealthy country is likely to consume, waste, and pollute more in his lifetime than 50 children born in developing nations. Our energy-burning lifestyles are pushing our planet to the point of no return. It is dawning on us at last that the life of our world is as vulnerable as the children we raise.

  George Carey

  Country, Children, Energy

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• Defenceless under the night
  Our world in stupor lies;
  Yet, dotted everywhere,
  Ironic points of light
  Flash out wherever the Just
  Exchange their messages:
  May I, composed like them
  Of Eros and of dust,
  Beleaguered by the same
  Negation and despair,
  Show an affirming flame.

  W. H. Auden

  Lying, Night, Dust

  "September 1, 1939" l. 92 (1939) See George H.W. Bush 3

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• The photographs of one dead terrorist mastermind carry no real news or information about the nature or horror of war. They just create sensation instead of deeper understanding.

  Philip Gourevitch

  Real, War, Understanding

  "Ask the Author Live: Philip Gourevitch on Osama Bin Laden". www.newyorker.com. May 4, 2011.

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• Women represent 70 percent of the 1.3 billion people in our world who live in absolute poverty. Consequently, as Joan Holmes, president of the Hunger Project, points out, any realistic efforts to change patterns of chronic hunger and poverty require changing traditions of discrimination against women.

  Riane Eisler

  Hunger And Poverty, People, Effort

  Riane Eisler (2008). “The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics”, p.124, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.

  Gordon Brown

  Cells, Numbers, Research

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• We all faced painful ethical challenges before we even knew how to spell our names. There were tough choices. Tradeoffs. Confusing signals regarding how to live one's life. And here we are now, today, still struggling. Still trying to sort things out. Still trying to work our way through life effectively. About the only thing that has changed is the scope of the problem. There's more at stake now. And we're in a position, as grownups, to do a lot more-good or bad-for ourselves, our organization, our world. But we still must wrestle with our imperfect ethics.

  Price Pritchett

  Life, Pain, Struggle

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• We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Moral Leadership, Thought Provoking, Needs

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• Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.

  Fred Rogers

  Inspirational, Life, Needs

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• We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Confused, Smart, People

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Welcome to the truth of our world-a massive seed shot out to the stars, filled with deadly children. A seed designed to slay everything it touches.

  Greg Bear

  Stars, Children, Welcome

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• For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place.

  John M. McHugh

  Father, Reality, Today

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• Making two possibilities a reality. Predicting the future of things we all know. Fighting off the diseased programming Of centuries, centuries, centuries, centuries. Science fails to recognise the single most Potent element of human existence. Letting the reigns go to the unfoldings faith, Science has failed our world. Science has failed our mother earth.

  Serj Tankian

  Mother, Fighting, Reality

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• Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe

  Satish Kumar

  Peace, Hate, War

  Prayer for Peace (1981; adapted from the Upanishads)

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• Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.

  Maya Angelou

  Peace, Looks, Speak

  Maya Angelou (2010). “Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem”, p.35, Schwartz & Wade

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• There have been the most terrible, shocking events taking place in the United States of America within the last hour or so... I am afraid we can only imagine the terror and the carnage there and the many, many innocent people who will have lost their lives... It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life and we, the democracies of this world, are going to have to come together to fight it together and eradicate this evil completely from our world.

  Tony Blair

  Couple, Fighting, America

  Tony Blair's speech to the Trades Union Congress, September 11, 2001.

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• Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Art, Trying, Want

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• Explore your web: the needs, the beliefs, and the emotions that are controlling you so there's more of you to give and so you can appreciate what's driving other people. It's the only way our world's going to change.

  Tony Robbins

  People, Appreciate, Giving

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• The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India will topple our world.

  Romain Rolland

  Europe, Soul, Together

  "Life of Ramakrishna". Book by Romain Rolland, 1929.

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