Al Gore Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• We the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency-a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential...the earth has a fever. And the fever is rising...Indeed, without realizing it, we have begun to wage war on earth itself.

  Al Gore

  War, Civilization, Survival

  Al Gore's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2007.

• The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.

  Al Gore

  Time, War, Struggle

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.275, Routledge

• You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the triumphs and all the tragedies, all the wars all the famines, all the major advances... it's our only home. And that is what is at stake, our ability to live on planet Earth, to have a future as a civilization. I believe this is a moral issue, it is your time to seize this issue, it is our time to rise again to secure our future.

  Al Gore

  War, Believe, Home

  "An Inconvenient Truth". Documentary, www.imdb.com. June 30, 2006.

• The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.

  Al Gore

  War, Principles, Tasks

• Throughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless.

  Al Gore

  Religious, War, Evil

• The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives, and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.

  Al Gore

  War, Heart, Numbers

  "U.S. steps up global fight against AIDS" by John King, Richard Roth and Steve Salvatore, www.cnn.com. January 10, 2000.

• American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace.

  Al Gore

  War, Winning, Sight

  "How to Debate George Bush" by Al Gore, www.nytimes.com. September 29, 2004.

• We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's relentless advance and those who refuse to be silent partners in the destruction. More and more people of conscience are joining the effort to resist, but the time has come to make this struggle the central organizing principle of world civilizations.

  Al Gore

  War, Struggle, Civilization

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.294, Routledge

• Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

  Al Gore

  Fashion, War, Political Will

• Now we have things that are obviously false, leading us to war, leading us to deny people health care, leading us to ignore the climate crisis. We have to restore the integrity of the democratic conversation.

  Al Gore

  Integrity, War, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• My parents were true believers in the efficacy of American constitutional democracy, and I was thoroughly inculcated with reverence for what we the people are capable of doing. The complication in that simple narrative is that as I got older, the Vietnam War shook my confidence in how our democracy was working. I ended up serving in that war, but it started with a lie, and I was very proud of my father for being one of its earliest opponents.

  Al Gore

  Father, War, Lying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war. These prior struggles for survival were won when leaders found words at the 11th hour that released a mighty surge of courage, hope and readiness to sacrifice for a protracted and mortal challenge.

  Al Gore

  War, Struggle, Sacrifice

  Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, delivered 10 December 2007, Oslo, Norway

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