Quotes with earth-cult

Quotes 161 till 180 of 503.

  • Assata Shakur I think that the movement against the World Bank, against the globalization process that is happening, is very positive. We need a globalization, a globalization of people who are committed to social justice, to economic justice. We need a globalization of people who are committed to saving this earth, to making sure that the water is drinkable, that the air is breathable.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • John Jay Chapman I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Bela Lugosi I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Bill Ackman I'm an extremely, extremely persistent person. Extremely. And when I believe I am right, and it is important, I will go to the end of the earth.
    Bill Ackman
    American investor (1966 - )
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  • Bill Nye I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Martin Luther King If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Abba Eban If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?
    Source: A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bill Mollison If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have demonstrated that we can establish a productive and secure earth society, we do not belong anywhere else, nor (I suspect) would we be welcome elsewhere.
    Source: Permaculture: A Designers Manual chapter 14.2
    Bill Mollison
    Australian author, teacher and biologist (1928 - 2016)
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  • Bill Ackman If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right.
    Bill Ackman
    American investor (1966 - )
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  • Bill Nye If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Alan Patrick Herbert If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
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  • Nadine Gordimer If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Bill Nye If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • James Baldwin If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Karl William Kapp If there had been a computer in 1872 it would have predicted that by now there would be so many horse-drawn vehicles that the entire surface of the earth would be ten feet deep in horse manure.
    Karl William Kapp
    German-American economist (1910 - 1976)
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  • Harriet Martineau If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Joseph De Maistre If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Assata Shakur If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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