Quotes About Impact

Though the question of global warming had not yet emerged to public perception, natural gas—methane—is about thirty times more effective than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. No one has calculated how much the vast waste of natural gas across the decades of the twentieth century—in the United States and throughout the world—contributed to global warming. The percentage was certainly more than zero.

sufficiently to produce worldwide agricultural collapse.

Such a choice—to tolerate the brutalization of children as we continue to do—is equally violent and equally evil, and we reap what we sow.

I presume, everyone feels who has done something that he knows will have very far-reaching consequences which he cannot foresee.

a person must pass the lessons learned on to others—or there has been no real gift at all.

To quote Archimedes once again, you must have both "a lever and a place to stand" before you can move the world. The educated and sophisticated Western person today has many levers, but almost no solid place on which to stand, with either very weak identities or terribly overstated identities.

It is the things that you cannot do anything about and the things that you cannot do anything with that do something with you.

It's not the idea that we hear, as much as the positive or negative energy behind it.

In any situation, your taking or giving of energy is what you are actually doing.

a story is like a virus that can rage only for as long as there are new hosts to infect.

yank out one thread from the fabric of human destiny, and everything unravels.

It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman.

He often did offend women without meaning to or even knowing how he'd managed.

He'd imagined the world would be a better place when it was rid of Big Jim Sullivan, but it had remained pretty much the same place, with just one less person to blame things on.

Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get used to it.

We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we do them.

In short, when it comes to an instant fix for everyday happiness, certain types of writing have a surprisingly quick and large impact. Expressing gratitude, thinking about a perfect future, and affectionate writing have been scientifically proven to work—and all they require is a pen, a piece of paper, and a few moments of your time.

I went to work, but the mood of the book would not die; it lingered, coloring everything I saw, heard, did. I now felt that I knew what the white man were feeling. Merely because I had read a book that had spoken of how they lived and thought, I identified myself with that book.

How constantly and overwhelmingly the advertisements, radios, newspapers and movies play upon us! But in thinking of them remember that to many they are tokens of mockery.

By seeing and improving the system, we create leverage.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. – Benjamin Franklin

Maybe it was more than this. Maybe the bond that forms between people doesn't get unmade so easily. Maybe it leaves its mark for a long time.

Polls could be self-fulfilling prophecies, shaping reality as much as they described it.

Violent crimes had increased from 120 per 100,000 in 1962 180 per 100,000 by 1964.