QUOTES
A
small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only
thing that ever has.
Always
remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
For
the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored
by their elders.
Because
of their agelong training in human relations-for that is what feminine intuition
really is-women have a special contribution to make to any group enterprise.
I
must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an
individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
If
we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize
the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social
fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
It
may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label
a necessary evil as good.
Life
in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the
first time.
Never
believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all
who ever have.
One
of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't
come home at night.
Our
humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns
that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
Prayer
does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute.
Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
The
solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children
grow up today.
We
won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
It
has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there
was almost no hope.
We
are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is
draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard
for the future of our children and people all around the world.
As
the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his
own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to
scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
Human
nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive"
"The United States
has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone"
Our
first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of
solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different
views about how the society is to run.
"If
we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize
the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social
fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place."
"We
won't have a society if we destroy the environment"
"EARTH
DAY uses one of humanity’s great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by
which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows and their joys, their
victories, their revelations and their obligations alive, for re-celebration and
re-dedication another year, another decade, another century, another eon. EARTH
DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital
to Earth’s safety. …EARTH DAY draws on astronomical phenomena in a new way; using
the vernal equinox, the time when the Sun crosses the equator making night and
day of equal length in all parts of theEarth. To this point in the annual calendar,
EARTH DAY attaches no local or divisive set of symbols, no statement of the truth
or superiority of one way of life over another. But the selection of the March
equinox makes planetary observance of a shared event possible. The vernal equinox
calls on all mankind to recognize and respect Earth’s beautiful systems of balance,
between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in the air,
mankind, water, air, and land. Most importantly there must always be awareness
of the actions by people that can disturb this precious balance."
EARTH
DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital
to Earth’s safety.
"No
society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them
not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded."
