“Any play that makes an audience think out of the box, that makes connections to life and names our pain and by doing so makes our pain subject to thinking and the process of understanding, is doing something inherently political. By promoting understanding, by putting experience in context, by making connections between the normal and the rational, theatre is an act of anti-terrorism. It stimulates courage and a survival spirit. In that sense of political, there are a lot of serious plays doing their work in the world.” ThinkingWorldPlayPainPoliticalSpiritNamesProcessUnderstandingAudienceSubjectsSeriousNormalSurvivalConnectionsBoxesTerrorismTheatreRationalPromotingAnti Terrorism Author:John Lahr
“We are at a point in human evolution when human solidarity on a global scale is absolutely vital for the survival of the human species. That means understanding that ... we are all co-inhabitants of this planet.” HumansMeanUnderstandingPlanetsEvolutionSurvivalSpeciesScalesSolidarityHuman SpeciesHuman Evolution Author:Petra Kelly
“Understanding that which is foreign to you is fundamental to cultivating a sense of connection and unity with one another. We are ultimately trying to accomplish the same thing, which is survival and the thriving of a better world.” WorldTryingUnderstandingSurvivalConnectionsFundamentalsUnityAccomplishCultivating Author:Adrian Grenier
“My understanding of voodoo is that it was important to the people who practiced it because it helped them survive. There are practical ways it enabled survival. It used herbal medicine to heal, to aid in childbirth. It was a spiritual system. It made room for hope and for magic and for possibility. For people who struggle and fight to survive and who fight to live, those are really important things.” PeopleImportantSpiritualFightingUnderstandingStruggleMagicPossibilitySurvivalAidsHealChildbirthVoodoo Author:Jesmyn Ward
“I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as scapegoats for religion in general. It is only quite recently that Christianity reinvented itself in non-fundamentalist guise, and Islam has yet to do so.” BelieveUnderstandingNaturalBusinessChristianityDoubtSurvivalIslamFundamentalistGuiseHabitatBeliveScapegoatCrankDeep UnderstandingNatural Habitats Author:Richard Dawkins
“I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific when it is really nothing but a sort of new religion and an uncommonly nasty one. When people talked about the fall of man, they knew they were talking about a mystery, a thing they didn't understand. Now they talk about the survival of the fittest: they think they do understand it, whereas they have not merely no notion, they have an elaborately false notion of what the words mean.” PeopleThinkingMenMeanSaidPhilosophyScienceFallUnderstandingTalkingMysterySurvivalNotionComplainingNastyVagueSurvival Of The FittestFall Of Man Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not vie for our allegiance. Instead, we are self-made, independent, alone, and fragile, a biological species adapted to live in a biological world. What counts for long-term survival is intelligent self-understanding, based upon a greater independence of thought than that tolerated today even in our most advanced democratic societies.” WorldHumansMayLongMadeSelfTodayUnderstandingTermExistenceGreaterMysterySurvivalIntelligentIndependentIndependenceDemocraticSpeciesToleranceLong TermDemonFragileAllegianceHuman ExistenceAdaptedDemocratic SocietySelf MadeMystery Of LifePredestinationSelf UnderstandingIndependence Of Thought Author:E. O. Wilson
“The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it is slipping away. The way back seems harder every year. If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding, through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations. And thus humanity closes the door on its past.” IfsMenWayYearsMindHumansSelfSeemsEarthPastBeautifulSpiritHumanityUnderstandingDoorsMysteryAchieveDangerCreationEvolutionSurvivalUltimateHarderGreenSpeciesSolveGuidesChosenIronyFulfillmentInstantDoomedSlippingTrajectorySelf UnderstandingBirthplaceSlipping Away Author:E. O. Wilson
“It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community -a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the earth.” MayImportantEarthFormSpiritualityNextIndividualUnderstandingCan DoCommunityKindnessSurvivalImportant ThingsMindful LivingLoving Kindness Author:Nhat Hanh
“Why do we so mindlessly abuse our planet, our only home? The answer to that lies in each of us. Therefore, we will strive to bring about understanding that we are--each one of us--responsible for more than just ourselves, our family, our football team, our country, or our own kind; that there is more to life than just these things. That each one of us must also bring the natural world back into its proper place in our lives, and realize that doing so is not some lofty ideal but a vital part of our personal survival.” WorldKindCountryHomeLyingUnderstandingRealizingNaturalAnswersOur LivesTeamFootballPlanetsSurvivalIdealsAbuseResponsibleStriveOur CountryOur FamilyOur PlanetNatural WorldLoftyFootball TeamMore To Life Author:Lawrence Anthony
“Today, the fundamental global objective of all education aspiring not only to progress but to the survival of humanity is to Civilize and Unify the Earth and Transform the human species into genuine humanity The education of the future should teach an ethics of planetary understanding.” ShouldHumansTodayEarthHumanityUnderstandingTeachProgressSurvivalEthicsFundamentalsSpeciesGenuineObjectivesHuman Species Author:Edgar Morin
“On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.” UnderstandingSimpleLevelsSurvivalForgivenessIntimateCrucialPersonal Relationships Author:Edward Albert
“Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.” WorldValuesCultureSocialUnderstandingEssentialsSurvivalStructureToleranceOpennessSocial Structure Author:Aga Khan IV
“The people of the Third World need our sympathetic understanding and, much more than that, they need our help. We can provide them with a margin of survival by internal disruption in the United States. Whether they can succeed against the kind of brutality we impose on them depends in large part on what happens here.” PeopleWorldNeedsKindStatesHelpingHappensUnderstandingUnitedUnited StatesCollegeDependsSucceedSurvivalThirdsInternalsMarginsSympatheticBrutalityThird WorldDisruptionObnoxious Book:How the World Works Source: How the World Works
“Faced with a new mutation in an organism, or a fundamental change in its living conditions, the biologist is frequently in no position whatever to predict its future prospects. He has to wait and see. For instance, the hairy mammoth seems to have been an admirable animal, intelligent and well-accoutered. Now that it is extinct, we try to understand why it failed. I doubt that any biologist thinks he could have predicted that failure. Fitness and survival are by nature estimates of past performance.” ThinkingTryingWellsHas BeensSeemsPastScienceWaitingUnderstandingAnimalDoubtConditionsPositionFutureSurvivalPerformancesIntelligentFundamentalsInstanceOrganismsAdmirableProspectsBiologistMutationLiving Conditions Author:George Wald
“If the wolf is to survive, the wolf haters must be outnumbered. They must be outshouted, out financed, and out voted. Their narrow and biased attitude must be outweighed by an attitude based on an understanding of natural processes.” IfsProcessUnderstandingNatureNaturalAnimalAttitudeSurvivalSpeciesLimitationVotingBiasedHaterBad Attitude Author:L. David Mech
“Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it.” ThinkingRunningPastUnderstandingSoundKeysSurvivalEmbraceRunning AwayDrsDr Phil Author:Anderson Cooper