#sour

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#considering #control #dimension #everything #highest

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#assume #becoming #been #better #efficient

That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#appropriation #characterized #characterizes #day #european

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#capital #depend #down #heading #human

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture. ↗

— John Hawkes

#always #any #being #best #cliched

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#energy #fusion #global #global warming #i

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#best #ends #how #importance #individuals

We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#had #lion #living #missouri #outside

For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can. ↗

— Jay Hernandez

#good #i #i can #i think #like

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame. ↗

— Hesiod

#shame #source #toil