100+ Human Activity Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "'I hadn't yet found the form that released my best intelligence.' - Interview with David Shields". Interview with Hayden Bennett, logger.believermag.com. April 18, 2013.

topic: Thinking, Literature, Serious, Human Activity

The debate is over. The scientific community has spoken in a virtually unanimous voice. Climate change is real. It is caused by human activity.

- Bernie Sanders

source: Bernie Sanders (2016). “Our Revolution: A Future to Believe in”, p.103, Profile Books

topic: Real, Voice, Community, Human Activity

Global warming is real and human activity is the main cause. The consequences are mainly negative and headed toward catastrophic, unless we act. However, the good news is that we can meet this challenge. It is not too late, and we have everything we need to get started.

- Al Gore

source: Al Gore's testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee, and the Science and Technology Committee's Subcommittee on Climate Crisis, abcnews.go.com. March 21, 2007.

topic: Real, Challenges, News, Human Activity

An ecovillage is a human scale, full-featured settlement which integrates human activities harmlessly into the natural environment, supports healthy development and can be continued into the indefinite future.

- Robert Gilman

topic: Support, Healthy, Development, Settlement, Human Activity

Many people have the impression that there is significant scientific disagreement about global climate change. It's time to lay that misapprehension to rest. There is a scientific consensus on the fact that Earth's climate is heating up and human activities are part of the reason. We need to stop repeating nonsense about the uncertainty of global warming and start talking seriously about the right approach to address it.

- Naomi Oreskes

source: "Undeniable Global Warming". www.washingtonpost.com. December 26, 2004.

topic: Talking, People, Environmental, Heating, Heating Up

There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign mode of being. If it grants us amazing powers over much of its functioning we must always remember that any arrogance on our part will ultimately be called to account. The beginning of wisdom in any human activity is a certain reverence before the primordial mystery of existence, for the world about us is a fearsome mode of being. We do not judge the universe.

- Thomas Berry

topic: Judging, Arrogance, World, Human Activity

Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism is the destruction of misery, of superstitions, of hatred. Therefore, every blow given to the institutions of private property and to the government, every exaltation of the conscience of man, every disruption of the present conditions, every lie unmasked, every part of human activity taken away from the control of the authorities, every augmentation of the spirit of solidarity and initiative, is a step towards Anarchism.

- Errico Malatesta

source: Errico Malatesta (2014). “The Method of Freedom: An Errico Malatesta Reader”, p.272, AK Press

topic: Lying, Taken, Men, Disruption, Anarchism

It's not controversial to say that human activity is contributing in some way. The question is how serious that is.

- Bobby Jindal

source: "Biology Major Bobby Jindal Pleads Ignorance On Evolution And Climate Science" by Joe Romm, thinkprogress.org. September 18, 2014.

topic: Way, Serious, Controversial, Human Activity

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

- David Hilbert

topic: Discovery, Achievement, Intellectual, Human Activity

It’s unlikely that any of those natural hazards will do us in within the next 100 years if we’ve already survived 100,000. By contrast, we are introducing, through human activity, entirely new types of dangers by developing powerful new technologies. We have no record of surviving those.

- Nick Bostrom

topic: Powerful, Technology, Years, Human Activity

Marketing is the set of human activities directed at facilitating and consummating exchanges.

- Philip Kotler

topic: Marketing, Humans, Human Activity

The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be.... The computer resembles the magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work. Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.

- Fred Brooks

topic: Character, Thinking, Perfect, Accustomed, Programmers

Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remote from poetry. Yet it is here that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

- Havelock Ellis

topic: Artist, Imagination, Spheres, Human Activity

No one must say that they cannot be close to the poor because their own lifestyle demands more attention to other areas. This is an excuse commonly heard in academic, business or professional, and even ecclesial circles. While it is quite true that the essential vocation and mission of the lay faithful is to strive that earthly realities and all human activity may be transformed by the Gospel, none of us can think we are exempt from concern for the poor and for social justice

- Pope Francis

topic: Reality, Thinking, Circles, Human Activity

Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition one who plans for and believes and trusts in a future, whether in the short or the longer term.

- Susan Hill

topic: Children, Believe, Optimistic, Procreation, Human Activity

All human professions, institutions, and activities must be integral with the earth as the primary self-nourishing , self-governing and self-fulfilling community. To integrate our human activities within this context is our way into the future.

- Thomas Berry

topic: Self, Community, Earth, Human Activity

The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

- Malcolm Turnbull

topic: Issues, Risk, Matter, Human Activity

The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.

- Ernest Becker

source: Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

topic: Death, Animal, Destiny, Fatality, Human Activity

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)”, p.77, BIG BYTE BOOKS

topic: Art, Mean, Men, Human Activity

The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything they come in contact with turns immediately into a condition of their existence. The world in which the vita activa spends itself consists of things produced by human activities; but the things that owe their existence exclusively to men nevertheless constantly condition their human makers.

- Hannah Arendt

topic: Men, World, Makers, Human Activity

The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived and through the historical character of the perceiving organ. Both are not simply natural; they are shaped by human activity, and yet the individual perceives himself as receptive and passive in the act of perception.

- Max Horkheimer

source: Max Horkheimer (1972). “Critical Theory: Selected Essays”, p.200, A&C Black

topic: Character, Two, Historical, Human Activity

It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult philosophy. As to what it is, Dewey's brief but striking description appeals most and has the least chance of being proved incorrect: 'It the Alexander Technique bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities.'

- John Dewey

topic: Philosophy, Healing, Culture, Medical Treatment, Faith Healing

If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.

- Barry Commoner

source: "At 90, an Environmentalist From the '70s Still Has Hope". Interview With Thomas Vinciguerra, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2007.

topic: Agriculture, Energy, Answers, Energy Production, Human Activity

Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the increase is due in large part to human activity.

- George W. Bush

source: George Walker Bush, John W. Dietrich (2005). “The George W. Bush Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches and Commentary”, p.162, M.E. Sharpe

topic: Revolution, Climate Change, Increase, Greenhouses, Human Activity

Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.

- James Ramsey Ullman

topic: Inspirational, Perseverance, Ocean, Human Activity

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

- Bjarne Stroustrup

source: Bjarne Stroustrup (2000). “The C++ Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley Professional

topic: Design, Forget, Lost, Human Activity

The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.

- Peter McWilliams

source: Peter McWilliams (1993). “Ain't nobody's business if you do: the absurdity of consensual crimes in a free society”, Mary Book / Prelude Pr

topic: Taken, Practice, Religion, Human Activity