Quotes about "Environmental & Nature"

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. ”

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. ”

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974. ”

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things. ”

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought. ”

Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in '99, to assign responsibility, and to look at the institutional failings. ”

Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local. ”

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. ”

The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary. ”

The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate. ”