Futures Quotes

159 quotes by 147 authors

The reality in Washington D.C. is if you live in Tenleytown versus if you live in Anacostia, you get two wildly different educational experiences. Itâ€™s… — Michelle Rhee
Determinism is the thesis that is true at every moment that the way things then are determines a unique future, that only one of the… — Peter van Inwagen
Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to… — Salman Rushdie
Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and… — Van Jones
My friend Ian Hagemann, a regular at Wiscon, once said on a panel that when he reads science fiction futures that are full of white… — Nalo Hopkinson
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them. — Bernard Berenson
The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says… — Jim Rogers
If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a natural system to another and then to us, we will… — Gaylord Nelson
It will take a massive effort to move society from corporate domination, in which industry's rights to pollute and damage health and the environment supersede… — Lois Gibbs
If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for… — Harry Allen Overstreet
It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures. — Ally Condie
And finally, to all Canadians: Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. We can beÂ a better one - a… — Jack Layton
When God tells us to give extravagantly, we can trust Him to do the same in our lives. And this is really the core issue… — David Platt
Positive questions bring out the best in people, inspire positive action, and create possibilities for positive futures. — Unknown Author
What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the… — Stanley Schmidt
Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken, new delineations drawn over the… — Susan Griffin
It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures. — Terry Eagleton
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is. — Dennis Gabor
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. — Dennis Gabor
Elections are futures markets in stolen property. — H. L. Mencken

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