April 4, 2011

Hans Rosling at TED in 2010

October 21, 2009
“ If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.

Dan Millman Quotes from Way of the Peaceful Warrior

via http://philosophersnotes.com/quotes

October 14, 2009
“ Love without power is anaemic and sentimental.
Power without love is reckless and abusive.
Martin Luther King Jr.
October 10, 2009
“ Always take “no” as a question, and not as an answer.
via Geoff Mulgan
October 5, 2009

“People will continue to struggle for Peace, Justice, Freedom, Limitations on violence, and Constraints on power as they have always done.”

- Noam Chomsky

October 4, 2009

Towards a world without borders.

October 2, 2009
“ The question of moral responsibility is one that rarely arises in debates on greenhouse gas emissions. But if we wish our world to stand at all by the end of this century, it is a question that must arise. It is a question that must be discussed. And, it is a question that must be answered with a resounding, confident response: “We will fulfil our moral duty to this planet, it’s citizens and our descendants. We will act now, as individuals and collectively to secure the future of our planet.
September 16, 2009
“ The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It’s getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That’s how we know we’re alive: we’re wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that — well, lucky you.
Philip Roth
September 12, 2009
“ By nature we become like those who surround us. Thus when we surround ourselves with great people, we become great.
August 1, 2009
Climate Futures

Warning: This could take some time to read through. But despite the somber topic, the analysis is rather inspiring.

Climate Futures analyses the social, political, economic and psychological consequences of climate change and describes how different global responses to the problem could lead to five very different worlds by 2030.