#pro

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#commitment #durable #durable peace #environment #message

I think sensitive is the wrong description of me. I'm British, actually, so quite bad at expressing myself in conversation, as any ex-girlfriend will tell you. I'm probably emotionally stunted. ↗

— James Blunt

#any #bad #british #conversation #description

Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers. ↗

— Franz Boas

#been #case #deviate #every #exceeding

But I can tell that once, and if, and when this issue gets to be, under real terms, investigated, you will be seeing certain people that we know from this country standing trial; and they will be prosecuted criminally. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#country #gets #i #i can #investigated

I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth. ↗

— Bob Edwards

#depth #doing #i #i think #important

About these developments George Orwell, in Nineteen Eighty-Four, was quite wrong. He described a new kind of state and police tyranny, under which the freedom of speech has become a deadly danger, science and its applications have regressed, horses are again plowing untilled fields, food and even sex have become scarce and forbidden commodities: a new kind of totalitarian puritanism, in short. But the very opposite has been happening. The fields are plowed not by horses but by monstrous machines, and made artificially fertile through sometimes poisonous chemicals; supermarkets are awash with luxuries, oranges, chocolates; travel is hardly restricted while mass tourism desecrates and destroys more and more of the world; free speech is not at all endangered but means less and less. ↗

— John A. Lukacs

#george-orwell #orwell #prophecy #puritanism #food

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images. ↗

— Steven Bochco

#ideas #images #marry #opportunity #power

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good. ↗

— Steven Bochco

#believe #commits #good #problems #process

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#another #content #dispel #give #grief

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. ↗