“Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.” IfsWantWellsMayShowsPoliticalPresidentPlanetsOilRememberedForeign OilPolitical Courage Author:Jeff Goodell
“As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we're getting close to one, because the imaginative loss of the future is becoming acute.The most effective political actors on the planet now are people who want to blow themselves up.These are people who really don't want to get out of the bed in the morning and face another unpredictable day.” PeopleThinkingWayWantProblemFacesPoliticalActorsLossMorningPlanetsBecomingBedPhilosophicalBlowPassagesUnpredictableImaginativeBetter WaysPassage Of Time Author:Bruce Sterling
“Only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of interhuman strife, and can prevent the pending extermination of man by man on this planet. Without love, no armament, no war, no diplomatic machinations, no coercive police force, no school education, no economic or political measures, not even hydrogen bombs can prevent the pending catastrophe.” MenLoveHumansWarSchoolPoliticalForceHuman BeingsEducationPowerEconomicPlanetsPoliceRegardDefeatBombsCatastropheStrifeWithout LoveBombingPreventingDiplomaticPreventionNo WarHydrogenArmamentSchool EducationExterminationPolice ForceHydrogen BombPendingPowerful Love Book:The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation Source: The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation
“That wall, embodied in the First Amendment, is perhaps America's most important contribution to political progress on this planet.” FirstsImportantAmericaPoliticalProgressAtheismPlanetsWallPositive AtheismContributionAmendmentsFirst AmendmentImportant Contributions Author:Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.