James Hansen Quotes

Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.

James Hansen

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• The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Planet
  • Save
  • Actually

• I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

  

  Jack London
  • Planet
  • Magnificent
  • Atom

• Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Age
  • Body
  • Civilization

• I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

  

  Flora Lewis
  • Different
  • Civilization

• We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Plan
  • Planet
  • Environmental

• A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Civilization
  • Possible

• We Jews have been too adaptable. We have been too eager to sacrifice our idiosyncrasies for the sake of social conformity. … Even in modern civilization, the Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Sacrifice
  • Civilization
  • Jews

• Everything our civilization has produced is entombed.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Civilization
  • Produced
  • Entombed

• Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church or gender, red state or blue) by populating the terra incognita outside the ring with enough barbarians to verify the existence of a civilization within--to define the preferred stock by what, as all good people agree, it decidedly is not.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • People
  • Good
  • Church

• I believe that Western civilization, after some disgusting glitches, has become almost civilized. I believe it is our first duty to protect that civilization. I believe it is our second duty to improve it. I believe it is our third duty to extend it if we can.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Believe
  • Civilization
  • Glitches

• You can just start to feel really pregnant. Like you are the hugest person on the face of the planet.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Person
  • Planet
  • Pregnant

• The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.

  

  Iain Pears
  • Society
  • Action
  • Purpose

• You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if you desire to defend it, protect it,and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman Legions did - by putting your soldiers in the mud.

  

  T. R. Fehrenbach
  • Life
  • May
  • Desire

• Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Today
  • Looks
  • Civilization

• From a pure metaphysical perspective, there is no world outside ourselves. So, at the deepest level, the state of the planet is more a reflection of the consciousness of mankind than the consciousness of mankind is a reflection of world events.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Perspective
  • Reflection

• War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • War
  • Peace

• I think women can save civilization.

  

  Emily Murphy
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Woman

• I want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on the planet. I want them to not be afraid to lean toward their femininity.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Afraid
  • Girls
  • Planet

• Indian civilization has had the unique honour of demonstrating to the world that man does not live by bread alone. Cultural, moral and spiritual values have always formed the fundamental underpinning of our society. To-day there are signs of the weakening of the moral and spiritual fibre in our public life with evils of communalism, w:Casteismcasteism, violence and corruption bedevilling our society.

  

  K. R. Narayanan
  • Unique
  • Civilization
  • Honour

• The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Suffering
  • Civilization
  • Citizens

• It's not every day you do something that's never been done before.

  

  Sean Elliott
  • Done

• My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention.

  

  Ellen Langer
  • Attention
  • Idea
  • Explain

• The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • World
  • Today
  • Peace

• Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.

  

  James Hansen
  • Civilization
  • Planet
  • Peril