"I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own……" — Scilla Elworthy
"I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it."
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17 Quotes by Scilla Elworthy
Scilla Elworthy has 17 quotes on this site.
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When faced with world problems - like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the arms trade - you may be among those…
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Change happens at the level of the individual
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Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a…
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More and more individuals worldwide are realizing that war does not solve conflict, nor resolve long-standing cycles of violence. As…
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If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.
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Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther…
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Anger is like gasoline. If you spray it around and somebody lights a match, you've got an inferno. [But] if…
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There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.
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We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving…
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The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.
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Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully…
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To discover your mission and put it into action - instead of worrying on the sidelines - is to find…
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
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I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody…
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The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest…
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A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side -…
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According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is…
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As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of…
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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you…
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse…
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Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the…
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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
— Theodor Adorno
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But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and…
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