People are unaware of what is going on. When I talk to people, they know the basics, they know the planet is warming because of greenhouse gases… but they don’t know the actual consequence of that.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

Most emissions aren’t caused by individuals, they’re caused by corporations and states.

We’ve got to keep our eye on what’s happening with Russia and North Korea. We cannot lose sight of domestic policy, either. Healthcare. Immigration. Climate change.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

I’ve grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.

This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

When you read, I’m sure you don’t realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don’t do that.

Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

I remember when I was younger, and in school, our teachers showed us films of plastic in the ocean, starving polar bears and so on. I cried through all the movies. My classmates were concerned when they watched the film, but when it stopped, they started thinking about other things. I couldn’t do that. Those pictures were stuck in my head.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Sweden is not a green paradise, it has one of the biggest carbon footprints.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can ‚solve the climate crisis.‘ But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.

It’s the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change – as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet – the only one in the whole Milky Way – with a century of transportation whoopee.

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

People tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children ‚school-striking,‘ and they say, ‚Oh the children are going to save us.‘ But no, we aren’t. We are too young to be able to do that. We don’t have time to wait for us to grow up and fix this in the future.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

As you heat the planet up, it’s just like boiling a pot.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.