#toward

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#best #commons #destination #each #freedom

It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#cases #depend #easier #follow #harder

Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious! ↗

— David Eddings

#certain #conscience #gesture #i #like

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#catastrophe #changed #drift #everything #modes

The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#believe #disarmament #further #important #important step

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. ↗

— Epictetus

#anything #approach #brings #each #happiness

I don't bear any bitterness towards anyone. ↗

— Gloria Trevi

#anyone #bear #bitterness #i #towards

I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#always #american #american tradition #apolitical #comes

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#attitudes #away #beauty #because #certain

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#big #closed #easily #gravitate #proprietary