#lis

I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E. O. Wilson reminded us, tribal carnivores. We are programmed by our inheritance to see other living things as mainly something to eat, and we care more about our national tribe than anything else. We will even give our lives for it and are quite ready to kill other humans in the cruellest of ways for the good of our tribe. We still find alien the concept that we and the rest of life, from bacteria to whales, are parts of the much larger and diverse entity, the living Earth. ↗

— James Lovelock

#change

On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#came #drawing #i #looking #me

When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#established #jewish #jewish state #possible #result

Dare to wear the foolish clown face. ↗

— Frank Sinatra

#dare #face #foolish #wear

Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist. ↗

— Peter Singer

#freedom #good #instance #morally #over

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist. ↗

— Nanci Griffith

#i #i feel #i feel like #journalist #just

Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

#believe #miracles #realist #who

Foolish many said; foolish many, many believed. ↗

— Thomas Vernor Smith

#foolish #many #said

People must be realistic when evaluating their business. ↗

— Kevin Harrington

#evaluating #must #people #realistic #their

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#case #either #expense #idealism #in other words