"Take the year a country first reaches 50%……" — Gwynne Dyer
"Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in and, democracy, more or less automatically, appears."
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12 Quotes by Gwynne Dyer
Gwynne Dyer has 12 quotes on this site.
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For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were…
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As the most religious country of the 18 surveyed, the U.S. also comes in with the highest rates for teen…
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The scientists are really scared. Their [global warming] observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is…
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The military profession, especially is the long-established great powers, is deeply pessimistic about the likelihood that people and countries will…
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But we are almost certainly going to miss our [global warming] deadline. We cannot get the 10 lost years back,…
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The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning…
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While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an…
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There is a point of no return after which warming becomes unstoppable - and we are probably going to sail…
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The first and most important impact of climate change on human civilisation will be an acute and permanent crisis of…
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Never did anyone ever stay longer than ten years because the resistance grows fiercer as your presence grows longer [in…
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It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we…
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