Planet earth Quote by Robert Peate Download Open image ““The Planet Earth is a cesspool of avarice and apathy.”” — Robert Peate ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Planet earth
“I wish this planet wasn't such an asshole to the people existing upon it.” — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
“You didn’t meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“The problem you and I have, as Wrong Planet people, is not so much that we mean everything we say, but we expect that… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
“It’s so hard to balance in our minds the knowledge that ‘the world’ is mundanely ‘a planet.’ The former is so holy; the latter… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Mankind does not have dominion over the Earth, mankind has a relationship with the Earth.” — J.Adam Snyder Copy Share Image
“Earth may appear insignificant in the whole Universe, but it is the most beautiful and significant planet.” — Sukant Ratnakar Copy Share Image
“People spend a lot of time thinking about the planets that might orbit all those stars, but they ignore the worlds inside themselves.” — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“Look too on this poor planet of ours, Torn by the storms of mysterious powers, Evil contending with good from its birth, Wrenching in… — Martin Tupper Copy Share Image
“When we expand our perception of this awesome planet and universe, human drama becomes so insignificant!” — Lenita Vangellis Copy Share Image
“I think the purpose of government is for a population to accomplish its mutually agreed-upon goals without every citizen having to accomplish those goals for him- or herself. Some examples: we have a police force so we don’t need to have vigilante mobs. We have a post office so we don’t need to deliver our own mail across the entire… — Robert Peate Copy Share
“Work or die’—this is the essence of slavery, of compulsion. And yet this is our world. Most of our world is enslaved but does not know it. Only the homeless are free, and for their freedom we sentence them to death. To refuse compulsion is to earn death, suffering, and calumny. It is not to refuse work—the homeless work very… — Robert Peate Copy Share
“If you make others think, you will be feared. If you disagree with them, you will be disliked. If you condemn them, they will… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
“To be a liberal is to care about more than one’s own belly or roof. It is to care about the rights of all men and women to live and breathe freely. Freely, do you hear me? This is not oppression. Stop saying that black is white and night is day. Freedom is not slavery! So stop with the Orwellian… — Robert Peate Copy Share
“I support the right of the individual, the right of the most individuals to get what they want. That is all majority rule is:… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
“I provoke thought, because that is what needs provoking. Humanity seems to hate thinking more than any other activity, and yet that is the activity most needed. I do what I can to force thought along, and I am hated and worse—ignored—for it. That's ultimately acceptable to me, because the work needs to be performed; I can perform it; and… — Robert Peate Copy Share
“And of course the World needs more love, but we need to be clear on what form that love will take. Sometimes love requires killing its object, to put it out of its misery or protect others. Sometimes love requires incarcerating its object to protect it or others. Sometimes love requires taxing and regulating its objects to protect and serve… — Robert Peate Copy Share
“Persons like you say, ‘I’m an individual, therefore I oppose any power over me.’ That right there does not follow. How about ‘I’m an… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
“The truth! Since when have the majority on Earth cared about the truth?” — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
To settle space, we will have to develop the ability to harvest and utilize the resources of the solar system, such as ores, ice,… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in 1898, long before the First World War (1914-1918). In the title story he proves to his own grim satisfaction, and to mine as well, that Satan and not God created the planet earth and "the damned… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no one will ever look at the earth in the same way. Man had to free himself from earth to perceive both its diminutive place in a solar system and its inestimable value as a life -fostering… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
Greetings, O Great Gazoo. How nice of you to join us here on planet Earth again. (Cael) Thanks, Barney. How’s Betty and Bam Bam doing? (Acheron) Great, if I could only get them away from Wilma and Pebbles. Those women are nothing but trouble. (Cael) Nah, they’re good women. It’s the ones in red who are always the downfall of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share
The earth itself assures us it is a living entity. Deep below surface one can hear its slow pulse, feel its vibrant rhythm. The great breathing mountains expand and contract. The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans. From the very beginning, throughout all its cataclysmic upthrusts and deep sea submergences, the planet Earth seems to… — Frank Waters Copy Share
“when we look down on ourselves through the eyes of nature we are of absolutely no significance. It is a reality that each one… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“job 14:1 man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of troubles "If that isn't your experience now it will be; its just around the corner. if this is a bright day for you, the dark day is around the corner. If this is a dark day for you , there's a brighter day is… — John Piper Copy Share
“Don’t listen to those people who suggest you should be “over” your daughter’s death by now. The people who squawk the loudest about such things have almost never had to get over anything. Or at least not anything that was genuinely, mind-fuckingly, soul-crushingly life altering. Some of those people believe they’re being helpful by minimizing your pain. Others are scared… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the attitude of attacking the unknown. And that causes us not to realize that we are already on the most magnificently equipped spaceship, which could hardly be improved upon. It has got a source of temperature and… — Alan Watts Copy Share
