We Cannot Quotes

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We cannot afford to put off change any longer. We have to get on a new path within this new administration. We have only four… — James Hansen
While we are each free to believe whatever we choose, we cannot do whatever we choose. — Hillary Clinton
One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and… — Stephen Hawking
We cannot interfere in one area of the ecosystem without paying due attention to both the consequences of such interference in other areas and to… — Pope John Paul II
This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us.… — Ban Ki-moon
Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23 feet. Hundreds of… — Lester R. Brown
It's obvious we can't ignore the problem any longer. Locally and nationally, we cannot wait to see how bad it gets. We need to act… — Greg Nickels
We cannot ask others to do what we have not done ourselves. — Christiana Figueres
We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences. — John Powell
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very… — Oscar Romero
We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can be sure some… — Immanuel Wallerstein
We cannot talk with [animals] as we can with human beings, yet we can communicate with them on mental and emotional levels. They should, however,… — Rebecca Hall
The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison;… — Charles Caleb Colton
We are the ones who work every day with people who are suffering because they don't have health care. We cannot turn our backs on… — Simone Campbell
It is a time of darkness, of faith. We shall not see Christ's radiance in our lives yet; it is still hidden in our darkness;… — Caryll Houselander
At the judgment, in response to our questions, the Lord will show us his wounds, and we will understand. In the meantime, however, he simply… — Pope Benedict XVI
The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve on our own; we have to accept them as gifts and enter in to… — Pope Benedict XVI
When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be unjust, and therefore… — Lewis Carroll
Our house is burning down and we are blind to it. The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all responsible. It is… — Jacques Chirac
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature increases… — Lester R. Brown

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