Humanity Quote by Joe Quirk Download Open image “Seasteading could be the means by which humanity will live sustainably.” — Joe Quirk ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humanity Mean Nature of man
Thinking about seasteading requires us to free ourselves of these broad political categories we're stuck with on land. People can make whatever community system… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
“The goal of Seasteading is for wealthy people to eventually secede into fully independent nation-states, floating in the open ocean—protected from sea-level rise and… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
People can leave seasteads, or people can choose them, and people can create new seasteads if they want. This fluidity will engage an evolutionary… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
[Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
To save the seas, we can eat sustainably and be conscious of the seafood we eat. — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Instead of decaying in a safe harbour, sail to the unsafe oceans! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
With earth's burgeoning human population to feed we must turn to the sea with understanding and new technology. We need to farm it as… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
“The sea defines us, connects us, separates us. Most of us experience only its edges, our available wilderness on a crowded island - it’s why we call our coastal towns ‘resorts’, despite their air of decay. And although it seems constant, it is never the same. One day the shore will be swept clean, the next covered by weed; the… — Philip Hoare Copy Share
The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
“The sea teaches the lesson every ecologist urges us to understand about the natural world: that it cares nothing for us, that it will… — Philip Marsden Copy Share Image
If seasteads advance blue-energy technologies, they'll create blue jobs. Millions of poor people living under exploitive governments are looking for a better choice. Seasteads… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
Nearly half the earth's surface is unclaimed by any country, so seasteads would be startup countries on the blue frontier. Patri Friedman is a Google engineer and theorist of political economy who realized that if society floated, it would completely change the nature of governance itself. If seasteads are modular and can be moved about, allowing people to choose new… — Joe Quirk Copy Share
I think our children will be living on floating cities, and they will look back on the 20th Century, when people lived in primitive… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
Evolution is variation and selection. If you can vary alternatives, and select among them, improvement emerges. It works in technology, in apps, and in life itself. What stunned me about seasteading is that it's a technology for variation and selection in governance itself. The reason some two hundred nation-states do a poor job of governing seven billion people is that… — Joe Quirk Copy Share
“Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are the only surviving species.” — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
Seavilization will be better than civilization, and we have nearly half the world's surface to discover it. — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations. — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
Oil platforms are a technology for floating permanently on the high seas, and cruise ships are a technology for self-governance on the high seas, and if you combine these two technologies, imagine cruise ships that never dock but float permanently. Imagine if they were 10 times as big. Imagine if they were modular and could move about and you could… — Joe Quirk Copy Share
We're going to draw a new map of the world, with French Polynesia as the centre of the Aquatic Age. — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
Seasteads are a technology for anybody to form an alternative community based on their unique values - for communities to organize themselves however they… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
People can leave seasteads, or people can choose them, and people can create new seasteads if they want. This fluidity will engage an evolutionary… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why. — Anonymous Copy Share
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I now know that deep within the human concept is something dark, selfish, and completely willing to do whatever is necessary to support the… — Melissa West Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism. Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression of Proudhon’s: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. To confiscate the word humanity, to invoke and monopolize such a term probably has certain incalculable effects,… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share
“He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
What is accurately portrayed is the rich humanity not just of Martin Luther King but of the movement, which was a multiracial movement. You… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
![“[Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets on every side. Long time I will keep them on their feet, by poverty, border-wars . . . seafaring . . .” quote by Marsilio Ficino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/51e/marsilio-ficino-20663_borders_nature-said-the-sea-shall-disjoin-the-pe_2497332.jpg)
