There is no question that if one were to ask whether we Americans are moving towards more liberty or more government control… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates. The worst vaccine of… — Archie Kalokerinos Copy Share Image
In Burma, under the present Constitution, the Army can always take over all parts of government if they think this is necessary.… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
What is irreversible in the Arab world is this intellectual revolution, the awakening that we can get rid of dictators. That is… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“I felt knots untie themselves, knots I didn't know were there. I could already tell there were things happening deep inside of… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
We have chosen to bring future generations into this world of rising seas and warming temperatures, droughts and floods, heat waves and… — Leonor Varela Copy Share Image
Sometimes the former forces are in the ascendance, and "democratic governance" is eroded, though anyone familiar with intellectual history would expect that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In the current setting the situation of the poor is neglected despite the grotesque wealth of the capitalist elites, and the dangers… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Even Boris Johnson doesn't think there's going to be a United States of Europe. And I think there's a real question here… — Ruth Davidson Copy Share Image
The prescribers very often overstate, oversell, and the detail people are only too happy to tell them to do that. This idea… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate into a… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
[Richard Avedon's] camera dwells on the horrible things that age can do to people's faces - on the flabby flesh, the slack… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living. — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all. — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
Noah had 120 years to warn humanity of the flood. We have only 4-5 years until global warming is irreversible — Yosef Abramowitz Copy Share Image
I'm choosing not to accept the Trumpification of the GOP as an irreversible fact. — Bill Kristol Copy Share Image
By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“I believe a world economic collapse is irreversible, and I believe the timing of this horrible event will fall in this window… — John Shorey Copy Share Image
The climate is nearing tipping points. Changes are beginning to appear and there is a potential for explosive changes, effects that would… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
(1) irreversible processes are as real as reversible ones. (2) irreversible processes play a fundamental constructive role in the physical world. (3)… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Money, credit scores, material things don't matter. Life & death, your family & friends, once they're gone it's irreversible. Don't forget. — Heather Dorff Copy Share Image
It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
The quantum fluctuations within a zero-point field can start the process that builds the process, which builds into matter, an irreversible process.… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
While in some cases the damage already done may well be irreversible, in many other cases it can still be halted. It… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In the complex course of its evolution, life exhibits a remarkable contrast to the tendency expressed in the Second Law to Thermodynamics.… — J. H. Rush Copy Share Image
We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
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