#urgent

When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents. ↗

— Alvaro Uribe

#central #dictators #find #insurgents #latin

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#atomic #atomic energy #created #energy #existing

America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance. ↗

— Mohamed El-Erian

#better #call #coherent #country #downgrade

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#decrease #human #human population #increasingly #like

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#billion #century #end #environmental #had

I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done. ↗

— Wayne White

#country #done #i #idea #like

Many questions torment America in its dark night of the soul, questions more urgently pressing, and yet it must be asked: How did we get stuck with Piers Morgan? Who is he, why is he here, is he returnable? ↗

— James Wolcott

#asked #dark #did #get #here

The signs that the world is spinning out of kilter are increasingly difficult to misinterpret. The question is how to convince enough people to join a critical mass of urgent opinion, in the U.S. and the rest of the world. ↗

— Al Gore

#critical #critical mass #difficult #enough #enough people

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#concepts #consciousness #current #matter #nature

Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#federal #insanity #legislation #needed #stop