“This notion that man can, and should, have absolute dominion over the "chaotic" powers of nature and woman...is what ultimately lies behind man's famous "conquest of nature" - a conquest that is today puncturing holes in the earth's ozone layer, destroying our forests, polluting our air and water, and increasingly threatening the welfare, and even survival, of thousands of living species, including our own.” MenShouldTodayEarthLyingWaterLossBehindsAirSurvivalShould HaveAbsolutesSpeciesNotionIncludingDisasterHolesForestsWelfareDestroyingLayersThreateningConquestDominionChaoticAir And WaterOzonePower Of NatureOzone Layer Author:Riane Eisler
“I made mistakes. My supporters and I failed to prevent a main like [Mikhail] Saakashvili from acquiring absolute power. I should have criticized him earlier on.” ShouldMadeMistakeShould HaveAbsolutesSupporterMade A MistakeAbsolute PowerI Made A Mistake Author:Irakli Okruashvili
“One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other.” ShouldWellsHas BeensNightBlackRoomsPartyEventsShould HaveAbsolutesMy FavoriteActressesCelebrateOscarsShould Have Been Author:Gabourey Sidibe
“Everybody was cratered after Copenhagen. If the movie had worked the way that it should have, if it had been scripted by Holywood, the world would have come together and addressed the biggest problem it ever had faced and delegates would have embraced each other, and it all would have been a good happy scene instead of the complete farce and debacle that it turned into - maybe in certain ways, an absolute low point for human diplomacy.” IfsWorldWayShouldHumansHas BeensProblemTogetherCertainSceneLowsShould HaveAbsolutesDiplomacyDelegatesFarceCopenhagenLow PointsDebacles Author:Bill McKibben
“We should have absolute control over our borders. If we want cheap labor to depress wages and disempower the unions, then we could have guest workers. But we have to face that issue. What is it that we want to do? Rather than not facing it, and having porous borders, and the effect is that it disempowers the unions.” IfsWantShouldFacesIssuesEffectsLaborShould HaveAbsolutesUnionsWorkersBordersGuestsDepressingWagesCheap Labor Author:Mark Helprin
“The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.” ShouldHas BeensSpiritShould HaveVoteUniversalMurderAbsolutesSatisfiedAvoidedShould Have BeenMenaceSuppressionSuffrageLynchingUniversal SuffrageButchery Book:The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader Source: The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader
“The one thing I have absolute faith in is mankind's capacity to make things worse. No matter how bad it gets, we're all happy to screw each other over. It's enough to make me wonder if we should have let the zombies win.” IfsShouldMatterEnoughWinningWonderOne ThingMankindCapacityShould HaveAbsolutesOver ItScrewsZombie Author:Mira Grant