Al Gore Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.

  Al Gore

  Political, Culture, Facts

• The symbolism - and the substantive significance - of planting a tree has universal power in every culture and every society on Earth, and it is a way for individual men, women and children to participate in creating solutions for the environmental crisis.

  Al Gore

  Children, Men, Symbolism

• We are monumentally distracted by a pervasive technological culture that appears to have a life of its own, one that insists on our full attention, continually seducing us and pulling us away from the opportunity to experience directly the true meaning of our own lives.

  Al Gore

  Opportunity, Culture, Attention

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.241, Routledge

• Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.

  Al Gore

  Culture, Peers, Peer Review

  "Al Gore's views on climate change, extreme weather and Keystone XL". Interview with Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

• When politics is too slow, change has to come from culture.

  Al Gore

  Culture

• I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers. I'm hopeful that new business models will emerge that allow the newspaper culture to genuinely thrive in the digital age.

  Al Gore

  Years, Hopeful, Age

  Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. February 17, 2013.

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