“If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat?” IfsThinkingWorldStillsRealActingAttentionEconomySawsEconomicTruth IsCrisisKillingPay AttentionFlatsOne TimeMortgageGlobal EconomyEconomic CrisisSyncReal TruthWorld Is FlatMortgage Crisis Author:Thomas Friedman
“Kaplan can't understand trivialities. The triviality here is that nobody except the ultra right-wing jingoists like Kaplan are comparing atrocities by various countries. What honest people are saying seems to be incomprehensible: that we should keep to the elementary moral level of the gospels. We should pay attention to our own crimes and stop committing them. This would be true even if we were killing one person, OK? And it's even more true when we're killing millions of people.” PeopleIfsShouldPersonsCountrySeemsWould BeLevelsPayAttentionMoralMillionsHonestCrimeWingsKillingVariousBeing TruePay AttentionCompareRight WingAtrocitiesUltrasTrivialityHonest People Author:Noam Chomsky
“It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.” PeopleWorldWarFactsSeemsGovernmentAttentionEuropeKillingWitnessInsignificantPacifism Author:Victor Hugo
“If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her, she will slowly die.” IfsKnowsLoveGivingKindTogetherDiesLostAttentionCarAssumingKillingOne You Love Book:The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation