Large Scale Quotes

97 quotes by 88 authors

Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance… — Steven Pinker
My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed. — Samantha Power
My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. — David Rockefeller
In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold… — Frans de Waal
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under… — Thomas Jefferson
What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's… — George Saunders
Longing on a large scale makes history. — Don DeLillo
If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I donâ€™t admit to… — Virginia Woolf
It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces — Stephen Hawking
Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope. — Don DeLillo
Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance… — John Taylor Gatto
With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we as a species must travel. And… — Ben Parr
The form a city assumes as it evolves over time owes more to large-scale works of civil engineering - what we now call infrastructure -… — Martin Filler
Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods. — Irwin Redlener
Geoengineering involves humans making intentional, large-scale modifications to the Earths geophysical systems in order to change the environment. — Jamais Cascio
On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations. — Noam Chomsky
Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels… — Ban Ki-moon
Today, there is a large scale corruption in Gujarat. — Dinsha Patel
I experienced how foreign aid for large-scale vaccination projects helps to save the life of children and thus give a real input to growth and… — Jonas Gahr Store
Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development. — Peter Diamandis

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