“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution. That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 - you choose the number. It just does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the transformation.” YearsFirstsDoeHas BeensHappensProcessNumbersEconomicMankindRevolutionDevelopmentPeriodsModelsFirst TimeTasksTransformationClimateDepthClimate ChangeSettingSettingsDefinedYou ChooseCopConferencesEconomic DevelopmentIndustrial Revolution Author:Christiana Figueres
“I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.” ThinkingWarHappensStepsViolenceMankindMusicianStep Up Author:Elton John
“All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens that they color our opinion of those qualities to which mankind have attached responsibility.” HappensQualityResponsibilityOpinionMankindColorPraiseDistinctionEntitledCensureDeformityPersonal Qualities Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.” MayHappensSufferingCausesMankindEvidenceAbsenceUnhappinessPhilanthropyBenevolenceSufferers Book:History of Western Philosophy Source: History of Western Philosophy
“What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person and what kind of a society will we have twenty years hence if life can be taken so casually? It is that question, the question of our attitude, our value system, and our mind-set with regard to the nature and worth of life itself that is the central question confronting mankind. Failure to answer that question affirmatively may leave us with a hell right here on earth.” IfsYearsMindKindMayPersonsHappensEarthValuesNationsAnswersAttitudeAcceptingMoralHellTakenMankindBabyConscienceTwentiesRegardFabricConfrontingMind SetValue Systems Author:Jesse Jackson
“Am I doing anything? I do it with reference to the good of mankind. Does anything happen to me? I receive it and refer it to the gods, and the source of all things, from which all that happens is derived.” DoeHappensMankindSourceAll ThingsThings Happen Book:Meditations Source: Meditations
“If you ever go behind the glass and look at the focus groups that are deciding what you're gonna watch, it's scary. This cross-section of people they just happen to bring in to decide the fate of mankind on television is really scary.” PeopleIfsLooksHappensBehindsWatchesFocusFateGroupsMankindTelevisionCrossesGlassesScarySectionsReally ScaryFocus Groups Author:Adrian Pasdar
“To get a name can happen but to few. A name, even in the most commercial nation, is one of the few things which cannot be bought . It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.” HappensLastsNamesMankindFameGrantedFree Gifts Author:Samuel Johnson
“Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.” KnowsLoveHappensTogetherBlackWhiteOne ThingMankindAmbitionChineseMy AmbitionReggaeBlack WhiteReggae MusicRastaJamaican Music Author:Bob Marley
“War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.” PeopleIfsHas BeensWarSeemsHappensWould BeImaginationForeverMankindJokesVictimMajorityDuesBitterBehaveCosmicElsewhereAtrophy Author:Martha Gellhorn
“For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils, and would suffer their agonies in advance, while he would get no joy of present blessings since he would know how they would end. Ignorance is the necessary condition of human happiness, and it has to be admitted that on the whole mankind observes that condition well. We are almost entirely ignorant of ourselves; absolutely of others. In ignorance, we find our bliss; in illusions, our happiness.” IfsKnowsMenHumansWellsMadeEndsWholeHappensWould BeJoySufferingEvilKnow HowConditionsMankindIgnoranceBlessingIllusionIgnorantBlissAgonyHuman Happiness Author:Anatole France