“Our world is integrated to an unprecedented degree, while the global political awakening is injecting into interstate relations an intense amount of tension, emotion, even irrationality, which could cumulatively produce circumstances that preclude an effective and genuinely shared universal response to new global problems.” WorldProblemPoliticalEmotionProduceAmountCircumstancesDegreesUniversalRelationResponseAwakeningIntenseTensionOur WorldIntegratedUnprecedentedIrrationalityInterstate Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between loftiness and accessibility. Stir in the fact that the inborn talent and intelligence needed to achieve fame are immune to distributive tinkering by government programs and you have a definition of fame certain to produce envious rage: somebody screwed democracy.” FactsGovernmentAmericaCertainDemocracyAchieveTalentProduceNeededFameMessagesProgramFolksDefinitionsEqualityEnvyRageTensionContradictoryRelentlessImmuneEnviousForgedAccessibilityGovernment ProgramsOlympusTinkering Author:Florence King
“Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.” ImportantWarTodayCausesPovertyConditionsProduceInternationalDeeperTensionContinuingDistress Book:The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements Source: The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements
“I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that we all tend to understand a little more the needs for harmonizing the process and integrating races and cultures and producing multiculturalism and different melting-pot situations. That affects global things, tolerating the Arab, the African, the Eastern civilizations, getting rid of this hegemonic dominance by the West. That's all comprehensive now in terms both of understanding and approaching the whole planet.” ThinkingNeedsLittlesDifferentWholeCultureProcessUnderstandingTermRaceConsciousnessSituationProducePlanetsCivilizationElementsWestTensionPotEasternMulticulturalismComprehensiveMeltingFractionsIntegratingDominanceMelting Pot Author:Gilberto Gil
“The pressure we put on ourselves to produce this perfect... operatic... version of ourselves really puts an inordinate amount of stress and tension on us.” PerfectProduceAmountStressPressureVersionsTension Author:Shefali Tsabary
“I think good things come out of having tension with the people that you work with. You've got to be arguing in order to produce something interesting. If everyone's just agreeing with each other, you're not going to push the boundaries.” PeopleIfsThinkingOrderInterestingProduceGood ThingsArguingBoundariesTensionSomething Interesting Author:Felicity Jones