Quotes about "Indigenous Wisdom"

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. ”

We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha. ”

Central bankers tend to be conservative by nature. ”

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough. ”

The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama's view, America would subsume itself under a fuzzy internationalism in which the international community, which I think is a fiction, governs itself through the U.N. ”

The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing. Different countries have different histories, geographies, necessities, and interests. There's no natural, inherent, or enduring international community. ”

The world is a Hobbesian state of nature in which the struggle for domination is the very essence of international life. ”

Trump's behavior is deeply disturbing but hardly surprising. His mercurial nature is not the product of a post-inaugural adder sting at Mar-a-Lago. It's been there all along. And the American electorate chose him nonetheless. ”

There is a great deal of human nature in man. ”

It is my determination that we, as a party, continue to make that fundamental restatement of liberal values in the politics of our country. ”