“Today the world faces a single man armed with weapons of mass destruction, manifesting an aggressive, bullying attitude, who may well plunge the world into chaos and bloodshed if he miscalculates. This person, belligerent, arrogant, and sure of himself, truly is the most dangerous person on Earth. The problem is that his name is George W. Bush, and he is our president.” IfsMenWorldWellsMayPersonsProblemTodayEarthAmericaFacesNamesPresidentAttitudeDangerousWeaponsMassDestructionChaosBullyingManifestAggressiveArrogantWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionPlungeBloodshedSingle Man Author:Jack Balkin
“We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then only, and from this biased point of view, we have looked outward at the earth he has inhabited so briefly and at the universe in which our earth is so minute a part. Yet these are the great realities, and against them we see our human problems in a different perspective. Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we should find less time and inclination to plan for our own destruction.” IfsMenShouldYearsFirstsHumansLongDifferentProblemRealityEarthUniverseViewsPlansMinutesPerspectiveDestructionGreedPoint Of ViewVanityInclinationTelescopesBiasedDifferent PerspectiveVistasHuman Problems Author:Rachel Carson
“Development requires modification and transformation of the environment... the planet's capacity to support its people us being irreversibly reduced by the destruction and degradation of the biosphere and the need to understand the problem and take corrective action is becoming urgent.” PeopleNeedsProblemActionSupportEnvironmentPlanetsDevelopmentBecomingCapacityDestructionTransformationUrgentDegradationModificationBiosphere Author:Malcolm Fraser
“The problem is that those of us sympathetic with the plight of indigenous people view them as quaint and colorful, but somehow reduced to margins of history as the real world [(our world)] moves on We will be known as an era in which we stood by and either actively endorsed or passively accepted the massive destruction of both biological and cultural diversity on the planet.” PeopleWorldRealProblemMovingViewsKnownPlanetsDiversityDestructionAcceptedErasMassiveOur WorldReal WorldIndigenousMarginsSympatheticColorfulCultural DiversityPlightIndigenous PeopleQuaint Author:Wade Davis
“There is no explanation you can give that will explain away all the sufferings and evil and torture and destruction and hunger in the world! You'll never explain it. Because life is a mystery, which means your thinking mind cannot make sense of it. For that you've got to wake up and then you'll suddenly realize that reality is not the problem, you are the problem.” ThinkingWorldGivingMindMeanProblemRealityLife IsSufferingEvilRealizingMysteryDestructionWake UpHungerMake SenseExplanationTortureThinking Mind Author:Anthony de Mello
“The totalitarians in the world are very, very small. Only the smallest part of humanity wishes and acts upon the destruction of others. The pluralists are far larger. Those of us who believe in a world where we live together - we're far larger. The problem is we haven't made our case compelling across the world yet.” WorldBelieveMadeProblemTogetherHumanityWishCasesHavensDestructionCompellingSmallest Author:Eboo Patel
“The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a livable world. Humanity cannot afford to waste its financial and emotional resources on endless, meaningless quarrels between each group and all others. there must be a sense of globalism in which the world unites to solve the real problems that face all groups alike.” WorldRealEndsProblemEarthFacesHumanityGroupsEmotionalPlanetsCivilizationRight NowWasteResourcesDestructionEnvironmentalFinancialSolveEndlessMeaninglessQuarrelsReal ProblemsGlobalismEnvironmental Problems Book:I, Asimov: A Memoir Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir
“The future will be no primrose path. It will have its own problems. Some will be the secular problems of the past, giant flowers of evil blossoming at last to their own destruction. Others will be wholly new.” ProblemLastsPastEvilPathFlowerDestructionGiantsSecularBlossoming Author:John B. S. Haldane
“In the past, destruction of your neighbour might have been considered a victory, but today we are all interdependent. We live in a global economy; we face problems like climate change that affect us all. The 7 billion human beings alive today belong to one human family. In the context that others' interests are in our interest and our interest is in their interest, the use of force is self-destructive.” HumansHas BeensSelfUseProblemMightTodayPastFacesForceInterestHuman BeingsEconomyAliveVictoryDestructionClimateClimate ChangeBillionsDestructiveBelongingGlobalizationMight Have BeenNeighbourWise Man Once SaidLive For TodaySelf DestructionInterdependenceGlobal EconomySelf DestructiveHuman FamilyUse Of Force Author:Dalai Lama
“The number of nuclear bombs on the planet today - the sheer quantity of weapons of mass destruction in the possession of people and governments throughout the world - along with the fact that the use of brute force and militarism is an almost knee-jerk way of problem-solving on the planet today, makes the eradication of war the great moral issue of this generation.” PeopleWorldWayWarFactsUseProblemGovernmentTodayForceNumbersMoralIssuesGenerationsPlanetsWeaponsMassDestructionPossessionNuclearKneesBombsQuantitySheerProblem SolvingBrutesWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionJerkThis GenerationMilitarismNuclear BombBrute ForceMoral Issues Author:Marianne Williamson
“The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.” PeopleWorldHumansStatesProblemGivenNationsEnjoyUnderstandingPowerfulEffortEducationPovertyMillionsTechnologyRightsViolenceFailingInformationCommunicationRevolutionCitizensHealthyOrdinaryConsciousConsequenceToolsDestructionAbuseEnvironmentalHuman RightsAvailableAccessElitesCatastropheEducation SystemCoordinatesOrdinary CitizensAccess To InformationEscalatingEnvironmental Destruction Author:David Bornstein
“Our biggest challenges for the ocean and for the planet are problems of perception. People need to understand that species extinctions, habitat destruction, ocean acidification, and pollution are all chipping away at the resilience of the thin layer of life that sustains us on Spaceship Earth.” PeopleNeedsProblemEarthChallengesPlanetsOceanPerceptionDestructionSpeciesResilienceLayersPollutionExtinctionSpaceshipsHabitatChipping AwaySpecies ExtinctionOcean Acidification Author:Edith Widder
“Most of the damage suffered by the ocean up until now has been caused by local insults - overfishing, pollution, and destruction of habitats. If we tackle these problems now, we buy ourselves time to work on climate change.” IfsHas BeensProblemOceanDestructionClimateClimate ChangeLocalsDamageInsultPollutionHabitatOverfishing Author:Nancy Knowlton
“When we say we have "hit the limits," we are saying that nature is the problem, when in fact the limits we have hit are the limits of destruction and waste, not nature.” FactsProblemLimitsWasteDestruction Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“I mean there is no capital requirements to it or anything of the sort. And basically, I said there were possibly financial weapons of mass destruction, and they had them. They destroyed AIG. They certainly contributed to the destruction of Bear Sterns and Lehman. Although Lehman had other problems, too.” MeanSaidProblemBearsWeaponsMassDestructionFinancialDestroyedRequirementsWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass Destruction Author:Warren Buffett
“In the area of international security, taking into account that the United States and Russia are the largest nuclear powers: We are ready to jointly work to strengthen the non-proliferation regime for weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery. We are ready to work together, and much closer than before, on the problem of fighting terrorism, international terrorism, and here we certainly have vast opportunities.” MeanStatesProblemTogetherFightingOpportunityUnitedUnited StatesSecurityReadyWeaponsMassAreasDestructionAccountsInternationalTerrorismNuclearRussiaWorking TogetherRegimesNational SecurityWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionDeliveryNuclear PowerProliferationFighting TerrorismInternational Terrorism Author:Vladimir Putin
“At any rate, those problems [ non-proliferation regime for weapons of mass destruction ] would not be so acute, with numerous terror attacks and victims of those attacks in many areas of the world - in Europe and in the United States. We also never would have had such an urgent problem with refugees, I have no doubt about it.” WorldStatesProblemUnitedUnited StatesDoubtWeaponsMassEuropeAreasDestructionVictimRateTerrorNo DoubtRegimesRefugeeUrgentWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionProliferationTerror Attacks Author:Vladimir Putin
“The destruction that we have wreaked in the various theaters in which we've been engaged is really quite astonishing. But again, lethality, destruction, killing doesn't seem to achieve our objectives. So, my own sense is that a lack of lethality does not define the core problem.” DoeProblemSeemsMy OwnAchieveDestructionTheaterKillingVariousCoreObjectivesEngagedAstonishing Author:James Mattis
“It's going to be possible to rebuild the physical aspects of Kosovo. I was there recently, and you get a sense of the destruction of homes. Infrastructure and the countryside is relatively untouched. I think the biggest problem will not be the physical reconstruction; it will be the emotional and mental reconstruction.” ThinkingProblemHomeEmotionalDestructionCountrysideReconstruction Author:James Wolfensohn
“So many dictators trying to blackmail the free world because they have no way to compete on ideas, innovation or creativity. The Cold War was two competing visions of the future. I was always anti-communist but it was an idea at least, an alternative idea. We do not have a competing vision for the future because the ideals of these dictators are in the past. They are time travellers. They need confrontation and destruction to survive. The problem is, many people in the free world are sympathetic to Vladimir Putin.” PeopleWorldTryingWarProblemPastVisionCreativityColdDestructionInnovationTime TravelDictatorCold WarCompetingSympatheticConfrontationTraveller Author:Garry Kasparov
“We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.” Has BeensProblemFunnyWeaponsMassGunEvidenceDestructionIraqJust OneSmokingKoreaNorth KoreaWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionPretextInvadingInvading Iraq Author:Jon Stewart
“Imagine ten or tweleve orange chairs arrainged in a circle, with the happy woen from the flyer sitting at opposite ends. Only problem was, from day one, they weren't happy. Someone, whoever made that flyer, must have digitally turned their frowns upside down. They wrote about death. About the evilness of men. About the destruction of-and I quote- "the greenish, bluish orb with wisps of white." Seriously, that's how they descibed it. They went on to call Earth a knocked-up gaseous alien needing an abortion.” MenMadeEndsProblemEarthWhiteImagineTenSittingDestructionOppositesCirclesAliensAbortionChairsOrangeUpside DownWispsOrbsFlyersEvilnessKnocked Up Author:Jay Asher
“With this ego arises all the problems, the thousand and one problems. This ego will not allow you to fall in love and millions of problems will arise in your life. This ego would like everybody to surrender to you; this ego will not allow you to surrender to anybody - and love happens only when you surrender. When you force somebody to surrender, it is hate, destruction, it is not love.” ProblemHappensHateFallForceMillionsThousandEgoDestructionAnd LoveFalling In LoveSurrenderArise Author:Rajneesh
“That is the gay agenda...it is the recreation of society on a different moral foundation and the problem with that is that moral foundation will lead to social chaos and destruction.” DifferentProblemSocialMoralGayDestructionFoundationChaosAgendasRecreation Author:Scott Lively
“The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human kind.” HumansKindProblemWaterOpinionDestructionEnvironmentalEcosystemsScarcityEnvironmental ProblemsWorld Water Day Author:Maude Barlow
“During the time I was in office we have seen the beginning of the elimination of the fire season completely and are having fires all year round. I think we have seen the major problem of the destruction of land and property and lives that is a major problem because we don't have the resources for that many fires and we don't have the resources and the manpower to fight those fires throughout the year.” ThinkingYearsProblemFightingFireLandOfficeMajorsResourcesDestructionSeasonsPropertyRoundsClimate ChangeEliminationMajor ProblemsManpower Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human needs if one billion people starve while another billion have excess. It would be more efficient to distribute resources so that at least vital needs were met everywhere. Otherwise, for example, if kids are starving somewhere, dad goes out to slash and burn the rain forest to feed them - and so would I if my kids were dying. And this kind of destruction is everyone's problem, because we live in the same ecosphere.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsHumansLooksKindWholeProblemWould BeKidsInspiringDyingExampleDadCivilizationMetsResourcesRainDestructionMeetingsBillionsForestsExcessEfficientFairnessEfficiencyStarvingHuman NeedsParameters Author:Karl-Henrik Robert
“Yes, I think lots of people are eager to obtain weapons of mass destruction. But there's no evidence that he has weapons of mass destruction. There's been no evidence of him testing nuclear weapons. We have people that are in our face with nuclear weapons. We've got Iran and North Korea. We've got a problem with Pakistan. You know, I don't know what to say about that. There's a whole lot of people that are going nuclear. And I think that Saddam Hussein is actually, with the evidence, the least able to use nuclear weapons and the least obvious offender in that area at this moment.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWholeMomentsUseProblemAbleFacesWeaponsMassEvidenceAreasDestructionObviousNuclearIranNuclear WeaponsSaddamPakistanTestingHusseinKoreaNorth KoreaWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionOffenders Author:Janeane Garofalo
“I find it impossible to subscribe to a philosophy that believes that the destruction of human life is a legitimate solution to a problem that is mostly social, economic and psychological,... In reality, most women 'choose' abortion because they believe they have no other choice.” BelieveHumansPhilosophyProblemRealityLife IsChoicesSocialImpossibleEconomicSolutionsDestructionPsychologicalHuman LifeAbortionSolution To A Problem Author:Patricia Heaton
“Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves.” NeedsLittlesEnoughProblemEnergyCitiesDestructionSeedsIntenseDullDiverseLivelyRegeneration Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today. I believe in what I do beyond a shadow of a doubt. I gave my word to this tree and to all the people that my feet would not touch the ground until I had done everything in my power to make the world aware of this problem and to stop the destruction.” PeopleWorldBelieveDoneHelpingProblemTodayEarthI BelieveMorningDoubtTreeFeetShadowDestructionWake UpAskingI Believe InWorld TodayEarth DayGreen EarthWorld Earth DayHappy Earth Day Author:Julia Hill
“If you think about the impact of climate change, [it should be how] a doctor would deal with the problem. A scientific hypothesis is tested to absolute destruction, but medicine can't wait. If a doctor sees a child with a fever, he can't wait for [endless] tests. He has to act on what is there. The risk of delay is so enormous that we can't wait until we are absolutely sure the patient is dying.” IfsThinkingShouldChildrenProblemWaitingDealsRiskDyingDestructionDoctorsTestsAbsolutesImpactMedicineClimatePatientClimate ChangeEndlessEnormousDelayTestedHypothesisFever Author:Prince Charles
“The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.” NeedsHumansGodProblemTodayFacesSpiritualityPeaceUnderstandingEffortResponsibilityPovertySharePlanetsDevelopmentConflictDestructionUniversalHungerViolentBrotherhoodSisterhoodSense Of ResponsibilityEnding PovertyRoot CauseHunger PovertyDestruction Of Nature Author:Dalai Lama
“Dictators cause the world’s worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.” WorldHumansStatesProblemCausesCasesEconomyWorstDestructionLeavingCorruptionNakedDictatorTrailsTheftTreasuryDevastatedPlunderWantonDebrisCarnageVapidUs Treasury Author:George Ayittey
“Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept.” PeopleWorldLooksWarDoneShowsProblemHumanityPoorHalfLeaderPovertyBedConceptsDestructionClimateClimate ChangeHungerScalesHungryCall MeRealisticRealismEcologyShow MeEcologicalRealistExaggeratedUnimaginableOutdatedWholesaleCauses Of Poverty Author:Satish Kumar
“Many problems that confront us today are created by man, whether they are violent conflicts, destruction of the environment, poverty or hunger. These problems can be resolved thanks to human efforts by understanding that we are brother and sister and by developing this sense of closeness. We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share.” MenHumansProblemTodayUnderstandingEffortResponsibilityPovertyEnvironmentSharePlanetsBrotherConflictDestructionUniversalHungerViolentThanksDevelopingBrothers And SistersCloseness Author:Dalai Lama
“If there is any one thing most needed in this time of tumult and frustration, when men and women and youth and young adults are desperately seeking for answers to the problems which afflict mankind, it is an "iron rod" as a safe guide along the straight path on the way to eternal life, amidst the strange and devious roadways that would eventually lead to destruction and to the ruin of all that is "virtuous, lovely, or of good report."” IfsMenWayProblemYoungAnswersPathOne ThingMankindYouthStrangeNeededSafeEternalMen And WomenAdultsDestructionYoung AdultSeekingGuidesLovelyRuinsReportsFrustrationIronVirtuousEternal LifeTumultDeviousStraight Path Author:Ann M. Dibb
“We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.” WorldNeedsEndsProblemEarthMotherThis WorldCapitalismDestructionCurrentsInequalityCan NotMother EarthEquilibrium Author:Evo Morales
“A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the menace of terrorism to the humiliating poverty in which millions of human beings live, from the proliferation of weapons to the pandemics and the environmental destruction which threatens the future of our planet.” HumansProblemAbleHumanityReligiousHuman BeingsUnitedPovertyMillionsPlanetsWeaponsDestructionEnvironmentalTerrorismNuclear WeaponsOur PlanetMenaceHumiliatingPresent TimeProliferationPandemicsEnvironmental Destruction Author:Pope Benedict XVI