“The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.” CountryPoorRichEventsReflectionMiserySouthPopulationShockSeptemberSeptember 11Rich And PoorThoroughDisparityPoor Countries Author:Omar Bongo
“At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever.” IfsCountryFactsConsciousnessEventsPopulation Book:Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5 Source: Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5
“The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists .” CharacterCausesGrowthEconomicEventsFundamentalsAtheistPopulationDuesContemporaryFollySecularObserversFanaticismStatesmenEscapingGreat Events Book:The Economic Consequences of the Peace Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace
“The white population could not possibly be unaffected by those events - some whites more stubborn in their defense of segregation, but others beginning to think in different ways. And the black population was transformed, having risen up in mass action for the first time, feeling its power, knowing now that if the old order could be shaken it could be toppled.” IfsThinkingWayFirstsDifferentFeelingsActionOrderBlackWhiteKnowingEventsMassFirst TimePopulationDefenseDifferent WaysTransformedStubbornSegregationRisen Author:Howard Zinn
“None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.” KnowsWaySpiritFaithEventsHeroSurprisePopulationHeroicCitizenshipSlumber Author:Vaclav Havel
“Nearly everybody nowadays accepts the 'causal completeness of physics' - every physical event (or at least its probability) has a full physical cause. This leaves no room for non-physical things to make a causal difference to physical effects. But it would be absurd to deny that thoughts and feelings (and population movements and economic depressions . . .) cause physical effects. So they must be physical things.” FeelingsWould BeCausesDifferencesRoomsAcceptingEconomicEffectsEventsMovementPopulationDenyPhysicsAbsurdProbabilityThoughts And FeelingsCompletenessPhysical ThingsEconomic Depression Author:David Papineau