“I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that genetics, upbringing, choice, social conditioning and environment play a major part in which way we sway.” WayBelieveHumansPlayChoicesI BelieveSocialHuman BeingsEnvironmentMajorsConditioningUpbringingGenetics Author:Kathy Najimy
“I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our engendering a lifestyle which will enable us to be spontaneous, independent, yet related to each other, rather than maintaining a lifestyle which only allows to make and unmake, produce and consume - a style of life which is merely a way station on the road to the depletion and pollution of the environment. The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.” WayBelieveActionChoicesI BelieveTechnologySupportEnvironmentStyleProduceDependsIndependentInstitutionsLifestyleIdeologyDevelopingRelatedStationsPollutionConsumptionConsumerismSpontaneousDesirableMaintainingOverconsumptionOur ChoicesBe Spontaneous Author:Ivan Illich
“I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.” ThinkingNeedsLooksDifferentYoungChoicesStuffCreativeEnvironmentStyleHealthyWeakMinoritiesDifferent Styles Author:Peter Gabriel
“I want to make one thing clear: I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-affirmative action, I'm pro- environment, pro-health care, and pro-labor. And if that ain't a Democrat, then I must be at the wrong meeting.” IfsWantCareActionChoicesClearEnvironmentOne ThingLaborMeetingsDemocratHealth CareAffirmative ActionAffirmative Author:Wesley Clark
“For boys, the family was the place from which one sprang and to which one returned for comfort and support, but the field of action was the larger world of wilderness, adventure, industry, labor, and politics. For girls, the family was to be the world, their field of action the domestic circle. He was to express himself in his work and, through it and social action, was to help transform his environment; her individual growth and choices were restricted to lead her to express herself through love, wifehood, and motherhood--through the support and nurture of others, who would act for her.” WorldHelpingActionChoicesGirlIndividualSocialGrowthBoysSupportEnvironmentFieldsAdventureIndustryComfortLaborMotherhoodCirclesWildernessNurtureSocial Action Author:Gerda Lerner
“Very few people would choose to have even the most fabled assortment of goods if it meant getting cancer within the year. But the choice involves not the certainty of cancer very soon but an increased probability of cancer at some time in the future. The cancers are no less real; millions will die painfully and prematurely because of what we do to our environment. But the choice is not an easily visualizable one, and our capacity of denial comes strongly into play - as it tends to whenever we must weigh future costs against immediate benefits.” PeopleIfsYearsRealPlayDiesChoicesMillionsEnvironmentCostBenefitsCapacityEnvironmentalCancerCertaintyDenialGoodsPollutionProbabilityOur Environment Author:Paul L Wachtel
“I grew up in Monaco, and in that environment going into the financial sector was the obvious choice.” ChoicesEnvironmentGrewGrew UpFinancialObviousMonaco Author:Herve Falciani
“You have to understand that it's a very cooperative world, not only with the environment, with but our fellow human beings. If you do not cooperate, if you do not work together to keep the entire organism going, the whole thing dies, and everybody dies with it. That's a law of nature, and it's existed forever. We're one of the very few creatures that has a choice, and can intellectualize the process.” IfsWorldHumansWholeTogetherLawDiesChoicesProcessHuman BeingsForeverEnvironmentCreaturesFellowsWorking TogetherOrganismsLaws Of NatureCooperatives Author:George Lucas
“As an artist, environment has a lot of impact on choices, and these choices can change by changing your location.” ArtistChoicesEnvironmentImpactLocation Author:Ashkan Kooshanejad
“Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on.” WantFeelsLooksStoriesChoicesSoundEnvironmentHearingSignatures Author:Stephen Hopkins
“When you present people with things from the heart and from the soul, they make better choices: They make better choices about their bodies, they make better choices about their partners, they make better choices about the environment.” PeopleHeartSoulBodyChoicesEnvironmentPartners Author:Billy Corgan
“I could do all of my activities at Howard because it was an environment that had essentially rid the ideology of false choices that I feel absolutely constricts young black students.” FeelsYoungChoicesBlackEnvironmentStudentsActivityIdeology Author:Kamala Harris