Global Issues Quotes

• To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.

  Clare Short

  Rights, Roots, Effort

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• Todays impossibilities are tomorrows miracles.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Miracle, Today, Tomorrow

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• Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups.

  Paul Krugman

  Powerful, Ideas, Groups

  "The people always pay" by Noam Chomsky, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 1999.

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• I am for peace. And I am for a negotiated peace. But this accord is not a just peace.

  Edward Said

  Accord

  Edward W. Said, Amritjit Singh, Bruce G. Johnson (2004). “Interviews with Edward W. Said”, p.117, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal

  Noam Chomsky

  Opportunity, Devil, Criminals

  Noam Chomsky (1999). “Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order”, p.91, Seven Stories Press

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• [W]hat suffers in the atmosphere of immediacy is analysis. What suffers in this search for speed is depth. The media in the wealthy world are becoming increasingly simplistic, superficial, and celebrity-focused.

  Laurie Garrett

  Media, Atmosphere, Suffering

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• I dread our own power, and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded... We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing, and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.

  Edmund Burke

  Ambition, Thinking, Abuse

  Edmund Burke's remarks on the policy of the allies, as quoted in "The Works of Edmund Burke", 1839.

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• A fertilizer bomb that kills hundreds in Oklahoma. Fuel-laden civil jets that kill 4000 in New York. A sanctions policy that kills one and a half million in Iraq. A trade policy that immiserates continents. You can make a bomb out of anything. The ones on paper hurt the most.

  Raj Patel

  Hurt, New York, Oklahoma

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• Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can be cultivated.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Desire, Citizens, Corners

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• What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.

  Amira Hass

  Journalism, Centre

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• More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul.

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Soul, Cry

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.44, Pearson Education

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• I challenge anybody to show me an example of bias in Fox News Channel.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Challenges, Example, News

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• Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Lying, Atheism, Use

  "The Wild Duck".

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• That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.

  Ivo Andric

  Men, Law, Doe

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• Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.

  Peter Drucker

  Opportunity, Issues, Social

  "Social intrapreneurship and all that jazz" by Melody McLaren, Lionel Bodin, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2013.

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• In some cases, in order to protect global issues some sacrifice for national interest is worth it in the long run. Global warming, these things, they suffer everybody.

  Dalai Lama

  Running, Sacrifice, Order

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• If we were to focus our attention on one particular problem and neglect the others, we would fail to see the true scope of our current global issues. The changes made in that form of thinking are limited and self-contained.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Thinking, Self, Issues

  "Interview with United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Ian Somerhalder". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 01, 2014.

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• There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Poverty, Common, Poor

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• Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift.

  Noam Chomsky

  Opportunity, Liberty, Devil

  Noam Chomsky, Donaldo Macedo (2004). “Chomsky on Miseducation”, p.135, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• They make a desert and call it peace.

  Tacitus

  Peace, Ubuntu, Desert

  Agricola ch. 30. These are allegedly Calgacus's words at the battle of the Grampians.

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• I don't get to the global issues or anything like that. I am just trying to be silly.

  Brad Williams

  Silly, Issues, Trying

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• Climate is a global issue. Coal is still the energy that is being used more than anything else to make electricity. The United States is using less as we're turning more to gas. But, around the world, that's what they're using.

  Ian Bremmer

  Issues, Energy, Climate

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• Ozone and climate are global issues, and it's hard to find a way in which the benefits of shutting down carbon emissions are going to pay for themselves for any given power-plant, say.

  Ramez Naam

  Carbon Emissions, Issues, Ozone

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• This conclusion of trade agreements that go beyond the scope of mere tariff agreements, customs agreements, are most important and I'm very pleased we were able to bring this to fruition between Canada and the E.U. We've made great progress, particularly if we look at one of the great global issues, namely climate protection, without the engagement of the current administration under the leadership of Barack Obama, this Paris agreement would never have come about.

  Angela Merkel

  Issues, Agreement, Paris

  "Read President Obama's Comments Urging Donald Trump to Stand Up to Russia". time.com. November 17, 2016.

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• I have a lot of interests in global issues, as you know, humanity, inequity, arms control, and I continue to be active on all these issues.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Issues, Humanity, Arms

  Interview with Fareed Zakaria, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. January 30, 2011.

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