James Lovelock Quotes

I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

James Lovelock

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• The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Men
  • Power
  • Help

• The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Power
  • Church
  • Thought

• That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • God
  • Men
  • Live

• The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Power
  • Hurt
  • Lies

• Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Power
  • Generation

• What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Power
  • War

• I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Power
  • Laughter
  • Horror

• Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Power
  • Labor

• I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Power

• Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • God
  • May
  • Power

• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Power
  • More
  • Dangerous

• But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Power
  • Justice
  • Organization

• Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Government
  • Organization

• 'Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Power
  • Movie
  • Girl

• I really believe in the power of music.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Power

• Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Women
  • Power
  • Nature

• I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Power
  • Control
  • Morning

• I do work on a little bit of weights just to get my power up.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Up
  • Work
  • Power

• I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me the enormous power of literature and fired me up with a desire to become a writer, to participate in what I considered then to be the greatest of all endeavors.

  

  Douglas Preston
  • Up
  • Book
  • Power

• When the power of private prisons is diminished, so, too, is their ability to engage in back-door political lobbying that has an impact on public and private prisons alike.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Power
  • Political
  • Door

• The orators - and the despots - have the least power in their cities … since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

  

  Plato
  • Power
  • Wish

• My quest to meet Osama bin Laden began in North London early in 1997. In the Dollis Hill section, I contacted Khaled al-Fauwaz, the spokesman for a Saudi opposition group, the Advice and Reformation Committee, which bin Laden had founded.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Advice

• Leave it to women to be cryptic rather than straightforward

  

  Kaye Dacus
  • Leave
  • Straightforward
  • Cryptic

• I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

  

  James Lovelock
  • Power