To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that… — Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Copy Share Image
There's nothing good about ash dieback, but there is one useful thing that could be done: wherever possible, leave the dead trees… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
I can't help comparing what I have with Gale to what I'm pretending to have with Peeta. How I never question Gale's… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
It's not accidental that products get worse over time; it's because companies stop paying attention to them. They stop caring as much… — Aaron Levie Copy Share Image
We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war.… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“On the girl’s brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you,… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
The message is one of the beautiful things about the film. And I think part of the appeal is simply that they… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
Never admit defeat and ask for a quick death! Die first, then admit defeat! If you are defeated but didn't die, it… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
There's more and more recognition that a carbon economy is dangerous to us economically. And there is increasing recognition that renewable fuels… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
It's time to use the antitrust laws and to break up this conglomerate corporate media that has now poisoned our democracy to… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“His touch was like an electric current that ran through his fingers into my cheek and down the back of my neck.… — Kirby Howell Copy Share Image
The prevailing move in American society to a permanent war status does more than promote a set of unifying symbols that embrace… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I know the stars are my home. I learned about them, needed them for survival in terms of navigation. I know where… — Gene Cernan Copy Share Image
I asked my grandmother how a Hungarian Jewish person can experience being Jewish. My grandmother answered was the only choice was to… — Csanad Szegedi Copy Share Image
Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity,… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
Dieter Dengler was an amazing man. Who knows what he would've been had he not ever been tested in this way? It's… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
The emotion of fear often works overtime. Even when there is no immediate threat, our body may remain tight and on guard,… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness.… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
My understanding of voodoo is that it was important to the people who practiced it because it helped them survive. There are… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Only chance to make the world a success for humanity lies in technology, grand possibility technology provides to do more with less,… — John Cage Copy Share Image
On nuclear war, actions in Syria and at the Russian border raise very serious threats of confrontation that might trigger war, an… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will… — Amaka Imani Nkosazana Copy Share Image
