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  • Today, with America being a beleaguered global power, in part because of its own mistakes, it is absolutely essential that the American democracy refocuses its concerns towards global issues and does not approach its own specific problems on the basis of, to some extend, self-induced fear.

    Mistake   Self   America  
  • [W]hat suffers in the atmosphere of immediacy is analysis. What suffers in this search for speed is depth. The media in the wealthy world are becoming increasingly simplistic, superficial, and celebrity-focused.

  • They make a desert and call it peace.

    Peace   Ubuntu   Desert  
    Agricola ch. 30. These are allegedly Calgacus's words at the battle of the Grampians.
  • If we were to focus our attention on one particular problem and neglect the others, we would fail to see the true scope of our current global issues. The changes made in that form of thinking are limited and self-contained.

    Thinking   Self   Issues  
    "Interview with United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Ian Somerhalder". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 01, 2014.
  • Еhere's no doubt at all that the Norman conquest led to the hugely concentrated land ownership patterns that we still see in Britain today. Some of Britain's biggest landowners are still direct descendants of Norman barons. And given the impact that Britain has had on the world over the past few hundred years, you could perhaps say this was a global issue. History is always with us.

    Past   Years   Land  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can be cultivated.

  • I challenge anybody to show me an example of bias in Fox News Channel.

  • In some cases, in order to protect global issues some sacrifice for national interest is worth it in the long run. Global warming, these things, they suffer everybody.

  • More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul.

    Wisdom   Soul   Cry  
    William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.44, Pearson Education
  • I have a lot of interests in global issues, as you know, humanity, inequity, arms control, and I continue to be active on all these issues.

    Issues   Humanity   Arms  
    Interview with Fareed Zakaria, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. January 30, 2011.
  • That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.

    Men   Law   Doe  
  • People like to say, “Well, you’re a celebrity. You should really pick a cause.” I felt that’s like telling a doctor, “Well, you should focus on one area of the body.” Current issues, global issues, political issues, women’s issues—whatever one you want to talk about. It’s systemic, you know?

    Issues   Doctors   People  
    "Sophia Bush of NBC’s Chicago PD: On Curiosity, Collaboration, and Clean Water". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

    Poverty   Common   Poor  
  • Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups.

    Powerful   Ideas   Groups  
    "The people always pay" by Noam Chomsky, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 1999.
  • Todays impossibilities are tomorrows miracles.

  • Climate is a global issue. Coal is still the energy that is being used more than anything else to make electricity. The United States is using less as we're turning more to gas. But, around the world, that's what they're using.

    Issues   Energy   Climate  
  • This conclusion of trade agreements that go beyond the scope of mere tariff agreements, customs agreements, are most important and I'm very pleased we were able to bring this to fruition between Canada and the E.U. We've made great progress, particularly if we look at one of the great global issues, namely climate protection, without the engagement of the current administration under the leadership of Barack Obama, this Paris agreement would never have come about.

    "Read President Obama's Comments Urging Donald Trump to Stand Up to Russia". time.com. November 17, 2016.
  • Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal

    Noam Chomsky (1999). “Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order”, p.91, Seven Stories Press
  • Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift.

    Noam Chomsky, Donaldo Macedo (2004). “Chomsky on Miseducation”, p.135, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • I dread our own power, and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded... We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing, and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.

    Edmund Burke's remarks on the policy of the allies, as quoted in "The Works of Edmund Burke", 1839.
  • The US is the most wretchedly villainous state of all times. Anyone aware of global issues can easily imagine how vast the hatred for the United States - a corrupted, swollen, paralysing and suffocating political entity - must be across the Third World - and among the thinking minority of the West too.

    Pentti Linkola (2011). “Can Life Prevail?”, p.159, Arktos
  • A fertilizer bomb that kills hundreds in Oklahoma. Fuel-laden civil jets that kill 4000 in New York. A sanctions policy that kills one and a half million in Iraq. A trade policy that immiserates continents. You can make a bomb out of anything. The ones on paper hurt the most.

  • Teaching is almost like an act of prayer for me. I feel that I am present at the intersection of people and ideas in a very holy way. There are not many places where successful adults can take a break from work or domestic issues and freely and safely explore their inner lives or global issues through an ethical lens.

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.

  • I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

    Sermon at Temple Israel of Hollywood, delivered 26 February 1965
  • A more just world is possible. In most of the global issues, and also in so many of the development issues I'm involved in in our region, the young people that I am working with are seizing the tools at their disposal and trying to use them well, for issues far larger than their immediate personal benefit and concerns. That's what gives me hope.

    Issues   People   Giving  
  • I don't get to the global issues or anything like that. I am just trying to be silly.

    Silly   Issues   Trying  
    Source: thecelebritycafe.com
  • To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.

    Rights   Roots   Effort  
  • I am for peace. And I am for a negotiated peace. But this accord is not a just peace.

    Edward W. Said, Amritjit Singh, Bruce G. Johnson (2004). “Interviews with Edward W. Said”, p.117, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Climate change is a global issue - from the point of view of the Earth's climate, a molecule of CO2 emitted in Bejing is the same as a molecule emitted in Sydney.

    Views   Issues   Climate  
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