Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction the movement has been in a funk.
Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.
Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis and pledged to do something about it if elected.
I like to change characters and then slowly I believe the audience treat me as like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.
When people align around shared political social economic or environmental values and take collective action thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change.
Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
Yet what you need is not marches demonstrations rallies or wide associations all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that the sooner we'll begin to change things.
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
Excess generally causes reaction and produces a change in the opposite direction whether it be in the seasons or in individuals or in governments.
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction but dissatisfaction never changes.
Action and reaction ebb and flow trial and error change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence fear out of our fear clearer vision fresh hope. And out of hope progress.
When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.
I have a 6-year-old and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.
I want do some kind of action movie car chases and explosions.
Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions but not your country's. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. - because the total emissions are set by the cap.
I'd really like to get the girl shoot the gun drive the car have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams where I'm the action guy.
I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood car chases evacuations a lot of special effects seas dividing mass murder adultery. The children of God are running amok wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.
The whole business is built on ego vanity self-satisfaction and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business its activities or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
In the US there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions called Democrats and Republicans which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.