Our time Quotes by Dale Jamieson

People with long memories and a vivid sense of the past have an immediate understanding of politicians like Donald Trump. They are not surprised…

— Dale Jamieson

On my reading of history people who want to bring us the best are usually the people we ought to be afraid of.

— Dale Jamieson

We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper…

— Dale Jamieson

The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately institute, in advance of the happening of various contingencies and emergencies of life, devices…

— Dale Jamieson

I see a lot of individual action when it comes to environmental questions really as a form of politics as a way of communicating…

— Dale Jamieson

Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.

— Dale Jamieson

In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.

— Dale Jamieson

You can't imagine anything like nature as we know it without predators.

— Dale Jamieson

Climate change involves fundamental choices about how we want to live and what kind of world we want.

— Dale Jamieson

Acts are right in virtue of the goodness of their consequences.

— Dale Jamieson

Our traditional systems of decision-making are just not up to preventing changes in fundamental earth systems that are driven by a constant barrage of…

— Dale Jamieson

One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history.

— Dale Jamieson