“Personally, I am more than ever inclined to believe that the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion are genuine. Without them I do not see how one could explain things that are happening today. More than ever, I think the Jews are at the bottom of all our troubles.” ThinkingBelieveTodayTroubleHappeningsBottomJewGenuineEldersProtocolZion Author:Nesta Helen Webster
“Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share?” PeopleTodayAsksPayShareHappeningsFairsAngryCorporationsProfitableFair SharePolitics Today Author:Richard Trumka
“In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.” TodayStuffGrowthHappeningsProductivityPrintGoing To WorkInflation Author:Peter Thiel
“I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.” PeopleMenNeedsUseTodayAmericaNumbersStageFieldsDependsHappeningsForestsRationalReasonableGrainContinentsIrrationalFinitePlagueAttackingNorth AmericaMassacresPests Author:Edward Abbey
“Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. We are so busy making things happen that we have little time left to think about the value of what is happening. We urgently need people who concentrate on the meaning of life rather than simply the speed.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsLittlesHappensTodayValuesLeftJudgingAchievementHappeningsBusySpeedThings HappenMeaning Of LifeLittle TimeTime LeftLittle Time Left Author:Joan D. Chittister
“Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.” PeopleWayHumansDifferentFactsTodayFormEasyConflictHappeningsEndlessManipulationDividesDogmaHuman HistoryDifferent PeoplesOpposing Book:--and the Truth Shall Set You Free Source: --and the Truth Shall Set You Free
“One of the things that I have seen change that warms the cockles of my heart is what is happening in the cosmetics industry. For years, they were doing horrible things to animals in the manufacture of cosmetics, and testing of the most barbaric types; today, if you go into a drugstore and go down the [cosmetics] aisle, look at how many of them say no animal testing. I've talked with people who work in the cosmetics departments, and they tell me, Without that, you can't sell them. And that's wonderful!” PeopleIfsYearsLooksHeartTodayAnimalWonderfulTypeIndustryMy HeartHappeningsSellsHorribleDepartmentTestingCosmeticsAisleHorrible ThingsBarbaricAnimal TestingCockles Author:Bob Barker
“We can no longer ignore the stupidity of the hits that are still happening today despite the fact that the players know the concussion aspect is such a big part of the game and sports in general.” KnowsStillsFactsBigsTodayGamesSportsPlayerHappeningsAspectStupidityDespiteNhlConcussionsSports In General Author:Jeremy Roenick
“It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of our future. Today, the rest of America, and after that Europe, had better heed what happens in California, for it already reveals the type of civilisation that is in store for all of us.” KnowsSaidHappensTodayAmericaUsedTypeHappeningsEuropeStoresUsed To BeCaliforniaOur FutureGlimpseCivilisationHeed Author:Alistair Cooke
“I see the situation of man in the world of planetary technicity not as an inexitricable and inescapable destiny, but I see the task of thought precisely in this, that within its own limits it helps man as such achieve a satisfactory relationship to the essence of technicity. National Socialism did indeed go in this direction. Those people, however, were far too poorly equipped for thought to arrive at a really explicit relationship to what is happening today and has been underway for the past 300 years.” PeopleMenWorldYearsHas BeensHelpingTodayPastSituationDestinyAchieveLimitsHappeningsTasksEssenceSocialismExplicit Author:Martin Heidegger
“As soon as you made a decision that time is going to be currency, then it should be a reflection of what's happening today. And obviously, it is.” ShouldMadeTodayDecisionHappeningsReflectionCurrency Author:Andrew Niccol
“I am very optimistic because I have seen the changes in my lifetime. I have seen the world change for the better. We always think that present times is terrible, that what's happening today, it was never worse, that the world is going in the most awful direction. But I think that the world that my grandchildren will have will be better than the one I had when I turned 20.” ThinkingWorldTodayTerribleHappeningsLifetimeOptimisticAwfulGrandchildrenPresent TimeChange For The BetterMy Grandchildren Author:Isabel Allende
“You got to do what's happening today in the world. You got to keep up with time. Keep up to date, keep modern - keep up on your toes!” WorldTodayModernHappeningsToesUp To Date Author:Jack LaLanne
“The universe does not exist 'out there,' independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be happening. We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense, this is a participatory universe. Physics is no longer satisfied with insights only into particles, fields of force, into geometry, or even into time and space. Today we demand of physics some understanding of existence itself.” DoeTodayScienceUniverseForceUnderstandingSpaceExistenceFieldsStrangeInvolvedDemandHappeningsIndependentInsightPhysicsSatisfiedObservationTime And SpaceObserversParticlesGeometry Author:John P. Wheeler III
“Big data is at the foundation of all of the megatrends that are happening today, from social to mobile to the cloud to gaming.” BigsTodaySocialHappeningsFoundationCloudsDataMobileGamingData Science Author:Chris Lynch
“What is happening in politics today is a similar process to what happened in the medical world a few decades ago: realizing that there's more to healing than just addressing symptoms. Primary paradigm when it comes to dealing with political and social disease is allopathic: Pass a law, lock someone up, engage in warfare. And the state of the world today makes it clear that such allopathic measures have not exactly brought peace to all.” WorldStatesTodayLawPoliticalSocialProcessRealizingHealingClearHappenedDiseaseHappeningsDecadesMedicalPrimariesWarfareLocksSymptomsParadigmWorld TodayPolitics Today Author:Marianne Williamson
“It was something new that was happening everywhere. You couldn't miss it. If you needed to go to the grocery you would go to the predecessors of the big supermarkets of today.” IfsBigsTodayMissingNeededHappeningsSomething NewGroceriesSupermarketsPredecessors Author:William Eggleston
“The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and subtlety far exceeding anything of the kind achieved by the Inquisition; to the point that to believe today in a miraculous happening like the Virgin Birth is to appear a kind of imbecile.” BelieveKindStatesTodayMediaBirthHappeningsEducationalVirginsMiraculousOrthodoxySubtletyEducational SystemInquisitionDogmatismImbecilesVirgin BirthThoroughness Book:Vintage Muggeridge: religion and society Source: Vintage Muggeridge: religion and society
“How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand English -- or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed down to that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if you're a parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America, that's what's happening to your children with your tax dollars.” IfsWorldWayFeelsWritingChildrenKidsTodayAmericaValuesSpeakFeltParentClassStudentsLike YouTaxesHappeningsThirdsOur ChildrenDollarsInvestmentYour ChildrenGradesZeroClassroomThird WorldAttendingKindergartenAmerican EducationTax DollarsInvestment In Education Author:Frosty Wooldridge
“I think there is a risk that the Holocaust will be placed under a glass bubble just like the Napoleonic Wars or the Thirty Years' War. If you don't make the connection between memories of past atrocities and the present, there isn't any point to it. There are plenty of horrible things happening today in Germany and in the rest of the world.” IfsThinkingWorldYearsWarTodayPastMemoriesRiskHappeningsConnectionsGlassesThings HappenHorriblePlentyThirtyGermanyHolocaustBubblesThirty YearsAtrocitiesHorrible ThingsNapoleonic Author:Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
“There are amazing designers like Riccardo Tisci (whom I consider like my godfather in the industry), who are aware that beauty isn't defined by being just one thing or perceived in a single way. Today we hear people's voices, thanks to social media, and that can change things. This change is happening right now!” PeopleWayTodaySocialVoiceOne ThingMediaIndustryRight NowHappeningsSocial MediaThanksDefinedDesignerJust One Author:Maria Borges
“We look at problems happening halfway across the world and we think, 'Well, that's their problem.' But it's not. ... When you solve somebody else's problem, you're solving a problem for yourself because our world today is so interconnected.” ThinkingWorldWellsLooksProblemTodayHappeningsSolveOur WorldHalfwayWorld TodayInterconnected Author:Queen Rania of Jordan
“Today - and it's happening very rapidly - money, wealth, position, birth are of no importance at all. The thing that is important is the individual you are.” ImportantTodayIndividualWealthPositionBirthHappeningsImportance Author:Emilio Pucci
“Every day is amazing, even when it's awful, because everything is for a reason. I know that this horrible thing that's happening today is going to bring something so amazing.” KnowsReasonTodayHappeningsHorribleAwfulHorrible Things Author:Sandra Bullock
“Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and helplessness. But round about the horizon the eternal realities stand silent in their age-old longing. There shines on them already the first mild light of the radiant fulfillment to come. From afar sound the first notes as of pipes and voices, not yet discernable as a song or melody. It is all far off still, and only just announced and foretold. But it is happening, today.” FirstsStillsSelfRealityLightAgeTodaySongSoundVoiceSpaceDespairEternalHappeningsDestructionFilledLongingShiningNotesSilentRoundsNoiseFulfillmentArroganceMelodyHorizonAssuranceWeepingPipeHelplessnessRadiantAnnihilationAfarShine OnSelf Assurance Author:Alfred Delp
“... the thing that's happening today vis-á-vis computer imaging, vis-á-vis alteration, is that it no longer needs to be based on the real at all. I don't want to get into jargon - let's just say that photography to me no longer pertains to the rhetoric of realism; it pertains more perhaps to the rhetoric of the unreal rather than the real or of course the hyperreal.” WantNeedsRealTodayCoursesComputerPhotographyHappeningsRealismRhetoricUnrealJargonAlterationsImaging Author:Barbara Kruger
“What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.” IfsHas BeensTodayStreetsHappeningsFunctionResponseConcerts Author:Pete Townshend
“Those ministers of God who go about condemning me rather than preaching the Gospel they are sent to preach, are doing themselves a great harm. The more they condemn me, the lesser their anointing become. Go round the country today and see what is happening. Those men of God who used to perform great signs and wonder have lost their anointing because of their blasphemies.” MenCountryTodayUsedLostWonderHappeningsRoundsHarmMinistersPreachingBlasphemyCondemningAnointingMan Of GodPreaching The GospelSigns And Wonders Author:T. B. Joshua
“Most of my friends that I know now [were sexually assaulted] stayed silent. And I see that still happening today. A lot of women will stay silent and not share what happened to them.” KnowsStillsTodayHappenedShareHappeningsMy FriendsSilentSexually Author:Kirsten Gillibrand
“The criminalization of Black life was something specific to the United States in the post-Reconstruction period and there's something like it happening today with mass incarceration, directed largely against black males.” StatesTodayBlackUnitedUnited StatesPeriodsMassHappeningsMalesPostsReconstructionIncarcerationMass IncarcerationBlack LivesBlack Males Author:Noam Chomsky
“I remember being very affected by what was going on there towards the end of Apartheid. And the subject is still very pertinent, politically, to what's happening around the world today, in terms of negotiating peace talks. I had always been interested in this period of change in South Africa, generally, for a variety of reasons.” WorldStillsEndsReasonTodayRememberTermSubjectsPeriodsHappeningsSouthAround The WorldVarietyAffectedSouth AfricaWorld TodayApartheidNegotiatingPertinentPeace Talks Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor
“I'd have to think about it, but I was listening to this Johnny Cash song today that Tom Waits wrote for him - I think that's the story. For some reason it's a thing that sticks in my brain. He's describing this scene where he sees all these almost biblical images happening kind of in this burrow where this biblical train runs through this yard.” ThinkingKindReasonStoriesRunningTodaySongWaitingBrainListeningSceneHappeningsTrainSticksCashTomsBiblicalYardsDescribing Author:Justin Vernon
“As the popular trust in science fades - and many sociologists say that's happening today - people will develop a distrust of purely "scientific" psychology. Researchers in the universities haven't picked up on this; they're more interested in genetics and computer models of thinking than ever. But, in general, there is a huge distrust of the scientific establishment now.” PeopleThinkingTodayPsychologyHavensHugeComputerModelsHappeningsUniversityEstablishmentFadesDistrustGeneticsResearchersSociologists Author:James Hillman
“I'm specifically talking about Bill Nelson which merely said to [Barak] Obama stop what you're doing because it's against the law. He's out there saying that today we're gonna start separating families from their children and start sending people home, and it's not happening.” PeopleChildrenSaidHomeTodayLawTalkingHappeningsBillsNelsonSeparatingBarak Obama Author:Rush Limbaugh
“What is happening today is that there are millions of children who are not lifted up to the first rung of the ladder. Then they are condemned when they don't know how to climb from there.” KnowsFirstsChildrenTodayMillionsKnow HowHappeningsClimbsLadders Author:Marianne Williamson
“I'm starting to reread a bunch of Gandhi and it was kind of traumatic, because he was so clearly, unbelievably amazing. And the stuff that he is suggesting is so profoundly opposite from what is happening in our world today.” WorldKindTodayStuffHappeningsOppositesStartingBunchOur WorldWorld TodaySuggesting Author:Daniel Pinchbeck
“I think I've always had a pretty good time in life. I mean, I've had major trouble, and major brain surgeries, and challenges in relationships - like anyone else - but overall, when I wake up in the morning, and I'm aware, I'm like, "Ok. What's happening today? What's next?"” ThinkingMeanTodayNextChallengesBrainMorningTroubleMajorsHappeningsWake UpGood TimesSurgeryBrain Surgery Author:Gary Kraftsow
“Be prepared to organize nonviolent workshops - a teach-in around what is happening in America today. Organize your teachers and schoolmates, and be prepared to engage in some action.” TodayActionAmericaTeachTeacherHappeningsPreparedOrganizeBe PreparedWorkshopsAmerica TodaySchoolmates Author:John Lewis
“International terrorists have proved quite skilled at misleading many people about what is actually happening here in the Caucasus, and they continue to mislead people today.” PeopleTodayHappeningsInternationalTerroristMisleadCaucasus Author:Vladimir Putin
“One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems - where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?” IfsWorldReasonProblemTodayAmericaLostHappeningsDoctorsAngryLeavingUniversityReason WhyTherapyFacultySessionDoctor WhoNigeriaArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisPhysical TherapyComing To America Author:Chinua Achebe
“I think that what's happening today, with all the young poets rushing from one college to another, lecturing at the drop of a hat and so on, is not too good; I think it might have a bad effect on a great many of the young poets. They - to quote Mark Twain - "swap juices" a little too much, so that they are in danger of losing their own identity and don't give themselves time enough in which to work out what's really of importance to them - they're too busy.” ThinkingGivingLittlesEnoughMightTodayYoungToo MuchEffectsDangerIdentityCollegePoetLosingHappeningsImportanceMarkBusyWork OutGreat MenHatsJuiceToo BusyRushingLecturing Author:Conrad Aiken
“I think that the exchange is very important. Before I did the exhibition in Shanghai, I was a judge for the John Moores Painting Prize and that was very interesting for me, because some of the judges are Chinese and some are British, and we look at the work together. It was fascinating that most of the time we were in complete agreement, but some of the time we were not. People send their works from all over China. For a foreigner, this gave me a very good picture about what is happening in China and its art today.” PeopleThinkingLooksArtImportantTodayTogetherInterestingPaintingJudgingHappeningsVery GoodChinaBritishChineseFascinatingAgreementWorking TogetherPrizeVery InterestingForeignersExhibitionsShanghai Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“Whatever is going on wrong in America today, you cannot pin it on Donald Trump. He's not been there. He has not one fingerprint. He hasn't done one thing regarding anything policy-wise that's happening in the country today, and I think this is why his candidacy is so shocking and frightening to both establishment and Republican Democrats.” ThinkingCountryDoneTodayAmericaWiseOne ThingPolicyTrumpRepublicanHappeningsDemocratEstablishmentFrighteningShockingPinsFingerprintsAmerica TodayCandidacy Author:Rush Limbaugh
“For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes, you know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today's life and no discussion of the real conditions - which is really sickening. They've become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.” KnowsTryingKindRealTodayFilmLyingActorsCasesFantasyConditionsCrimeProduceHeroDirectorsHappeningsCriminalsKingdomsDiscussionRelatedConspiracyCollaboratorsGeneral Public Author:Ai Weiwei
“It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where lynchings were happening 100 years ago is where executions are happening today. And that's a haunting and eerie thing.” YearsTodayRacePracticeImpossibleHappeningsYears AgoSlaveryContemporaryExecutionPenaltiesHauntingDeath PenaltyLynchingEerie Author:Shane Claiborne
“If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.” PeopleIfsWould BeTodayPastViolenceHappeningsThings HappenAwfulSyriaStunnedSudan Author:Bill Gates
“When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is dominating humankind. I cannot not remember that there were other times, of course [the Second World War]. I never compare.” WorldWarTodayRememberCoursesViolenceStupidHappeningsCompareWar Of The WorldsArrogantHumankindWorld War IWorld TodaySecond World WarGrotesqueDominating Author:Elie Wiesel
“In today's global economy, innovations and improvements to products and services are not only happening more rapidly than ever before in history, they are being communicated instantaneously. So, it's "innovate or die"!” TodayDiesEconomyProductsHappeningsInnovationImprovementGlobal Economy Author:Bill Capodagli
“The family today counts for less and less. Why? Who knows - the growth of science, the Cold War, the atomic bomb, the world war we've made, the new philosophies we've created; certainly something is happening to man, so why go against it, why oblige this new man to live by the mechanisms and regulations of the past?” KnowsMenWorldMadeWarPhilosophyTodayPastGrowthColdHappeningsWar Of The WorldsBombsLive ByMechanismRegulationCold WarAtomic BombFamilies Today Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“Encourage dissent: Leaders should have associates who have contrary views, who are devil's advocates, "variance sensors" who can tell them the difference between what is expected and what is really happening, between what they want to hear and what they need to hear. There are too many naked emperors running around today.” WantNeedsShouldRunningTodayDifferencesViewsLeaderHappeningsDevilShould HaveExpectedContraryNakedAssociatesDissentEmperorVarianceSensorsDevil's Advocate Author:Warren G. Bennis