“Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of living from the beginning of human history to the middle of the eighteenth century had perhaps doubled. Not much had changed, and then we found coal and gas and oil and everything changed. We're reaping the result of that, both ecologically and socially.” HumansSaidFoundStuffResultsMiddleCenturyChangedStandardsAverageOilFuelGasCoalFossilsHuman HistoryFossil FuelSeductiveStandards Of LivingKeynes Author:Bill McKibben
“Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege. But also, it gave the Chinese a national public sphere for people to, it's like a training of their citizenship, preparing for future democracy.” PeopleHumansSocialDemocracyRightsMediaChangedSpeechTrainingEmbraceHuman RightsPrivilegeSocial MediaMindsetChineseSpheresFreedom Of SpeechCitizenshipPreparingBirthrightLimiting Freedom Of Expression Author:Michael Anti
“Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.” ThinkingWorldHumansJesusRightsChangedMedicineHuman Rights Author:John Ortberg
“Throughout history, the human species has struggled to some extent. It's part of us, as human beings, to provide better for our children and to try to do all these different things. The expectations have changed drastically, and thank God they have. Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world.” WorldTryingHumansChildrenDifferentHuman BeingsRightsChangedExpectationsOur ChildrenSpeciesDifferent ThingsThank GodHuman Species Author:Patricia Arquette
“My point of view actually on artificial intelligence, which ties into the nature for humans constantly looking into the reasons for why we exist and why consciousness exists changed during the making of Chappie. And I'm not actually completely sure that humans are going to be capable of giving birth to A.I. in the way that films fictionalize it.” WayGivingHumansReasonFilmViewsConsciousnessChangedBirthCapablePoint Of ViewTiesArtificial IntelligenceArtificialGiving Birth Author:Neill Blomkamp
“Where do you draw the line as a human being? Written record is only, what, a couple thousand years? And this scientific revolution is less than a hundred years. And computers only a few decades! We've changed so much. It's amazing, the speed of changes.” YearsHumansLinesHuman BeingsRecordsWrittenChangedRevolutionCoupleThousandComputerDrawsHundredSpeedDecadesThousand YearsScientific Revolution Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“The character has to have some kind of arch. The character has to go through an event, and be changed by the human event.” HumansKindCharacterEventsChangedArches Author:Constantin Stanislavski
“In the steel-and-glass society that we live in, the value system would be that the lawyer, with the Mercedes and the fine suit and the Ivy League education, was more valued than the minority without the education. But on the island, the rules are changed. It's the person who can make a fire or who can make friends. A kind human soul is valued.” HumansKindPersonsSoulWould BeValuesFireChangedFineGlassesLawyerSuitsLeagueIslandsMinoritiesSteelHuman SoulIvyValue SystemsIvy League Author:Scott Raab
“Humans used to desire love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace and freedom more than anything else. The last 30 years have changed us. Now people want to have a good job, and they want their children to have a good job. This changes everything for world leaders. Everything they do - from waging war to building societies - will need to be carried out within the new context of the need for a good job.” PeopleWorldWantNeedsYearsHumansChildrenWarJobsLastsUsedDesirePeaceLeaderChangedBuildingSafetyShelterGood JobWorld LeaderLove Of MoneyWaging WarDesire Love Author:Jim Clifton
“Approaches to growing food that align with nature changed human relationships.” HumansGrowingChangedApproachHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsGrowing Food Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“The Pirate Party started in Sweden in 2006, and it only had one agenda: to change draconian copyright laws. But it's changed and shifted primarily because the questions of human rights and cyber have become much more relevant. So if you want to place it somewhere on the spectrum, I would say it's a party that has its roots in civilian rights. But we are not like many left parties that want to regulate citizens and create nanny states. We believe that regulation should be on the powerful, not the individuals.” IfsWantShouldBelieveHumansStatesLawIndividualLeftPowerfulPartyRightsChangedCitizensRootsHuman RightsAgendasRelevantRegulationCiviliansSpectrumPirateCopyrightSwedenCyberNanniesCopyright LawDraconian Author:Birgitta Jonsdottir
“People make fun of cybersex, but it's really something to take into account: it is a drama, a split of the human being! The human being can now be changed into some kind of spectrum or ghost who has sex at a distance. That is really scary because what used to be the most intimate and the most important relationship to reality is being split. This is no simulation but the coexistence of two separate worlds.” PeopleWorldHumansKindTwoImportantRealityUsedFunSexHuman BeingsChangedDramaAccountsDistanceScaryGhostUsed To BeIntimateSplitsSpectrumCoexistenceSimulationReally ScaryImportant Relationships Author:Paul Virilio
“I don't think I have changed my personality as much as I have evolved as a human. Before the name change, I was very timid, very self-conscious. Just not very confident. When I changed my name, it came from a place of power.” ThinkingHumansSelfNamesChangedPersonalityConsciousSelf ConsciousI Have ChangedName Changes Author:Skylar Grey
“Since 9/11 the United States has been followed by countries with bad records, such as the former Soviet Union countries, into erosions of human rights. Because the United States has changed its standards it is undermining civil liberties elsewhere.” HumansHas BeensCountryStatesUnitedLibertyUnited StatesRecordsRightsChangedStandardsUnionsHuman RightsFormerSovietElsewhereSoviet UnionCivil LibertiesUnderminingErosion Author:Mary Robinson
“A lot of the people in history who I really admire lived before the hyperinformation age we're living in. Even if they were governing or solving problems in consequential periods, like the Civil War or the world wars or the Great Depression or the Cold War, they had a period of time and space to actually think, to be private and you read their biographies, and they had time to think about what was happening and how to respond. I don't think human nature has changed in the last 50-150 years, but the stresses, the demands on those of us in public life have just exploded.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldYearsHumansWarProblemAgeLastsSpaceHuman NatureChangedColdPeriodsDemandHappeningsStressAdmireWar Of The WorldsCivil WarProblem SolvingCold WarBiographiesTime And SpaceGoverningPublic LifeGreat DepressionTime To Think Author:Hillary Clinton