black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way.

Al Gore

CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally… Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.
AL GORE

Beyond Breathe Change Civilization Ourselves Past
The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.
AL GORE

Attention Planet
We all know the leopard can’t change his stripes.
AL GORE

Acceptance Animal Change
The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I’d been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
AL GORE

Day Internet Invention Myself
Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature.
AL GORE

Collection Combination Force Nature Technology
The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.
AL GORE

Children Diminish Earth Environment Future Global Rain Reality
We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.
AL GORE

Problem Run Solution Time
Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.
AL GORE

Funny Nature Photograph Travel
I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.
AL GORE

Cost Energy Myself Thinking Transition
We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.
AL GORE

Achievement Balance Ourselves Believe Children Choice Earth Future Inheritance Work
The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.
AL GORE

Challenge Climate Conscious Issues Level Politics Spiritual
We’re operating this planet like a business in liquidation.
AL GORE

Business Liquid Operation Planet
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
AL GORE

Election People Population Vote
When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.
AL GORE

Division Fear Hate Replacement Result
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it’s a challenge to the moral imagination.
AL GORE

Challenge Face Imagination Moral Myself Planet World
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
AL GORE

Creation Internet Myself Service
Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless.
AL GORE

Earth Freedom Infrastructure Limitation
A zebra does not change its spots.
AL GORE

Acceptance Change Self Love
At some point, a false belief collides with physical reality.
AL GORE

Belief Fake Physical Reality
For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.
AL GORE

Disturb Ideas Politics Reason Truth
The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth.
AL GORE

Earth Fate Kind Man Possible Religion
Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]
AL GORE

Change Each Other Live Solution Way
Mother Nature does not do bailouts.
AL GORE

Earth Mom Nature
The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.
AL GORE

Enemy Global Ourselves Struggle War
Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information.
AL GORE

Civilization Distribution Human Information Intelligence Past
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
AL GORE

Civil History Moral Obey Play Role Thinking Understand
Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.
AL GORE

Challenge Energy Freedom Nation

I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Al Gore Quotes