“A whole society imprints us. Language, television and culture imprints us Just living in a country is a vibratory imprint. All the collective attentions, of all the people who live there - imprint us.” PeopleCountryWholeCultureLanguageAttentionAwarenessTelevisionBuddhismCollectives Author:Frederick Lenz
“I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country.” PeopleThinkingNeedsCountryActionAwarenessRaisesCampaignsProtestProfileOrganisedHigh Profile Author:Tom Paulin
“Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the world, I come to realize that I still do not fully understand how I could have possibly survived the civil war in my country, Sierra Leone.” WorldChildrenStillsWarCountrySpeakNationsRealizingUnitedAwarenessRaisesAround The WorldCivil WarElsewhereSurvivedUnited NationsSierraRecruitmentUnicefSierra Leone Author:Ishmael Beah
“The primary cause of disorder and lawlessness today, as throughout history, is the poverty of the many in contrast to the affluence of the few. But a new element of unrest has been added: a growing awareness that mass poverty is caused by defective institutions that prevent our harnessing the physical capabilities of science, engineering, management and labor to create general affluence; in other words, a growing awareness that poverty in any country that is or can be industrialized, is man's not nature's fault.” MenHas BeensCountryWisdomTodayPoliticsCausesPovertyEconomyGrowingAwarenessElementsMassLaborManagementInstitutionsFaultsPrimariesLiberalismDisorderCapabilityContrastEngineeringAffluenceUnrestDefectiveLawlessness Author:Louis O. Kelso
“Expose your life to real need. Visit a developing a country. Take a short term mission trip. Write an inmate, send a letter to a sponsored child, serve in the inner city, at a food bank, with a crisis pregnancy center. Make time for shut-ins, the elderly, the sick, the single-parents, the new believers. Just find one way you can make your awareness of your gift-graced life intersect with a real place of need - and Christ in us will do the rest.” WayNeedsWritingChildrenRealCountryParentTermChristCitiesAwarenessLettersSickCrisisMissionsBelieverOne WayDevelopingPregnancyShort TermElderlyMaking TimeInner CitySingle ParentInmatesMission TripFood Banks Author:Ann Voskamp
“As a country [USA], we can attract more talented people to teaching by raising awareness of educational inequity and getting the public to understand from individual classrooms, schools, and cities that this is an issue that can be solved.” PeopleCountrySchoolIndividualCitiesIssuesTeachingAwarenessEducationalUsaClassroomRaising Awareness Author:Wendy Kopp
“Even if one child falls in a borewell, the entire country gets worried; we must generate more awareness about hundreds of children who are unable to survive due to lack of primary healthcare facilities.” IfsChildrenCountryFallAwarenessEmpowermentIndiaDuesPrimariesWorriedHealthcareFacility Author:Narendra Modi
“Comparatively there is a much more awareness about energy resources in other countries and especially in the US and European countries. Also people there are much more serious about what they do. Here, people are more concerned about getting a 'degree' rather than this.” PeopleCountryEnergyAwarenessSeriousDegreesResourcesConcernedOther CountriesEuropean Countries Author:Ramon Magsaysay
“There's nothing wrong with being proud of America, believing that America can do great things. America can do great things, it has done great things. I think we have to have the self-awareness to recognize that the world is a very, very big place, that we could be a force for good things in the world, but we have to have the humility to recognize that sometimes even when we think we're acting from the best of motives our own idealism can be infected by self-interest. Other people in other countries can see it sometimes better than we can.” PeopleThinkingWorldBelieveSelfCountrySometimesDoneBigsAmericaForceInterestCan DoActingAwarenessHumilityProudSelf AwarenessGood ThingsGreat ThingsMotiveOther CountriesIdealismBe ProudSelf Interest Author:Peter Beinart
“America is a younger country than England, obviously, and as self-awareness is forming in America - are we a collection of immigrants, are we a load of Italians and Germans and Jews and Brits and Irish, or are we a country with a soul and an identity? - there was a subliminal sense, they knew that the writers would be the ones who would answer those questions.” SoulSelfCountryWould BeAmericaAnswersAwarenessIdentityEnglandSelf AwarenessJewCollectionsImmigrantsLoadBritsSubliminal Author:Martin Amis
“It has been my pleasure to speak at many Federalist Society gatherings around the country, and I think one thing your organization has definitely done is to contribute to free speech, free debate, and most importantly public understanding of, awareness of, and appreciation of the Constitution. So that's a marvelous contribution, and in a way I must say I'm jealous at how the Federalist Society has thrived at law schools.” ThinkingWayHas BeensCountryDoneSchoolLawSpeakUnderstandingPleasureOne ThingAwarenessSpeechOrganizationConstitutionAppreciationDebateContributionJealousFree SpeechMarvelousGatheringLaw SchoolFederalist Author:Nadine Strossen
“The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.” PeopleHumansCountryMatterFallIndividualAwarenessWeaponsConscienceShadowVictimThreatNuclearPermitCrucialNuclear WeaponsRefusal Author:Daisaku Ikeda
“I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the plight of a single person...Out of my response to an individual develops an awareness of a problem to the community, then to the country, then to the world.” WorldPersonsCountryProblemIndividualCausesInterestCommunityAwarenessResponseAbstractSingle PersonIndignationPlight Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“Is Guinea prepared? And that's the question because of course these three countries had very, very weak health institutions. Many people had said that there was denial in Guinea, that many people in Guinea either said that Ebola did not exist or were hostile to any sort of Ebola health and safety awareness - how to deal with it.” PeopleSaidCountryThreeCoursesDealsAwarenessWeakSafetyInstitutionsPreparedDenialHostileGuineaEbolaHealth And Safety Author:Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
“It seems people don't read or listen. Our scholars and our media have been very outspoken. We were the first country in the world to hold a national public awareness campaign against extremism and terrorism. Why would we not want to fight an ideology whose objective is to kill us?” PeopleWorldWantFirstsHas BeensCountrySeemsFightingAwarenessMediaTerrorismCampaignsObjectivesIdeologyScholarExtremismOutspoken Author:Adel al-Jubeir
“The second part of that war was that Muslims came from all over the country to Pakistan, and they met each other. For the first time those men had an awareness of the Islamic world as a whole, not of just Egypt or Algeria or Indonesia, but of what Muslims call the Uma, the Islamic community. And that's an extraordinarily important thing. And that emanated in Pakistan.” MenWorldFirstsImportantWarCountryWholeCommunityAwarenessMetsFirst TimeImportant ThingsIslamicEgyptPakistanIndonesiaAlgeria Author:Michael Scheuer
“In some of the countries, women are not allowed to even leave the house. And that's something that needs to change. So, raising awareness among both sexes is key to that.” NeedsCountryHouseSexAwarenessKeysNeed A ChangeRaising Awareness Author:Juliet Aubrey
“I was raised in a country [South Africa] with a lot of political turmoil. I was part of a culture and a generation that suppressed people and lived under apartheid regimes. I don't know how you can come out of that and not have an awareness for the world. I think that if my life had turned out any other way and I was working in a bank, I would still feel this way about it, because there's a connection to humanity that to me is really important.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWorldWayFeelsStillsImportantCountryPoliticalHumanityCultureKnow HowGenerationsAwarenessConnectionsSouthRaisedRegimesSouth AfricaTurmoilApartheidPolitical Turmoil Author:Charlize Theron
“I don't think that developing countries gained from a two-stage process. A single phase summit (which is, after all, a two year process, not a three day event) would have built awareness, and would probably have led to more substantive conclusions at the end of the first summit meeting. Civil society may have gained a bit more from the networking experience, but it was less effective at networking in the second phase.” ThinkingYearsFirstsMayTwoEndsCountryThreeBitsProcessStageAwarenessEventsBuiltMeetingsConclusionDevelopingTwo YearsPhasesSummitNetworkingCivil SocietyDeveloping Countries Author:David Souter
“It's interesting that in those countries like Taiwan or Korea, where nuns are given equal opportunities for study and practice, they also develop great social awareness.” CountryOpportunityGivenSocialInterestingPracticeStudyAwarenessEqualKoreaNunEqual OpportunityTaiwanSocial Awareness Author:Tenzin Palmo
“You know, you're doing the same show every day, and your inspiration, you have to look no further than the fact that you know people travel across the country to see you. In a lot of cases, this is that audience's only chance to see the thing, and so, that's what gets you up in the morning, and that's what gets you giving your best performance on stage, is the awareness that this audience is ready for it, and here to have an experience, and so in turn are you.” PeopleKnowsGivingLooksCountryFactsShowsInspirationTurnsChanceMorningCasesAudienceStageAwarenessReadyPerformancesBest Performance Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda
“The situation with children is not good in America, nor in other countries. It may be much worse in other countries. It is not just because of the lack of money. It is the lack of the awareness that children are very open, smart and knowing people when they are still very little. Afterwards they close down. Then they become like everyone and we have to work again to open up.” PeopleMayChildrenLittlesStillsCountryAmericaSituationKnowingAwarenessSmartOther Countries Author:Laura Huxley
“The reports that Media Matters have done about sexism in our society and really the mainstream media called Hillary Clinton "castrating," they called her the B word, they called her all kinds of horrible things. And I think in a sense that it raised the awareness in our country, so that we can have a national discussion about it.” ThinkingKindCountryDoneAwarenessClintonHorribleAll KindsDiscussionSexism Author:Carolyn Maloney
“I think Trump has had a very strong and disturbing effect on the country already. He has given more legitimacy to white supremacy and even to neo-fascist groups, and he's created a pervasive atmosphere that's more vague but still significant. I don't believe that he can in his own way destroy the country, just as he can't eliminate climate awareness, but he can go a long way in bringing - well, in stimulating what has always been a potential.” ThinkingBelieveLongCountryStrongAwarenessSignificantAtmosphereVery StrongWhite Supremacy Author:Donald Trump
“After 9/11, we had this "terrorist-Muslim-threat" in the US but at the same time, next to that, in Holland we had this growing awareness that the so-called integration of new Dutch people, a lot of those that had come to live and work in our country originated from countries such as Turkey and Morocco, and a lot of them are actually Muslim, wasn't quite the success the state always had thought it was. The "new" Dutch didn't feel totally accepted, treated as second-rate citizens, and parts of the "old" Dutch suddenly believed that the new ones were trying to destroy our society.” PeopleTryingCountryAwarenessAcceptedIntegration Author:G.W. Sok
“The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.” YearsMindHeartSoulCountryJobsChoicesNextNationsFreedomQualityGenerationsAwarenessDetermineWoundsHealReactionsCommandSecureLegacyInjuryVotingVotersDividesNext GenerationPresidential ElectionUnknowingAmerican VotersHeart Mind And Soul Author:Aberjhani