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 GORECivil 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.
More Al Gore Quotes
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In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.
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The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable…that what we take for granted may not be here for our children
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The debate’s over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.
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Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any … people of any religious faith in this country.
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The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I’d been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
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Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.
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I don’t really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.
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I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.
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A zebra does not change its spots.
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At some point, a false belief collides with physical reality.
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Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it’s a challenge to the moral imagination.
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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.
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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.
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Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.
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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.
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