#usa

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#civil #civil society #international #nations #new

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#beings #billion #course #culture #deny

It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads. ↗

— Jon Porter

#hanging #heads #imperative #incurred #legal

Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#divided #jerusalem #never #united #will

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. ↗

— Fritz Todt

#accused #any #attempted #buildings #cultural

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#africa #behind #even #get #lines

I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#become #born #first #former #general

I was always really inspired by watching the older girls competing, just seeing other Olympians do great things, and I just really wanted to be a part of that whole experience. And to be able to represent USA was always a goal of mine. ↗

— Aly Raisman

#always #competing #experience #goal #great

Thousands of people may have been killed by hurricane Katrina and many more could die in its aftermath because of the President's refusal to heed the calls of governors for help in repairing the infrastructure in their states. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#because #been #calls #could #die

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt. ↗

— John Reed

#authorities #comes #contempt #every #excites