Erosion Quotes - Page 4

• The erosion of agency has consequences for our politics. As a result of all this, the fundamental ethical challenge of the anthropocene is the recovery of agency, or alternatively to come to terms with its loss and to understand how to go on.

  Dale Jamieson

  Recovery, Loss, Agency

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Sometimes our fights are as strong as a current, as consistent as waves and as stubborn as unmoveable rocks. Martial fights cause the same kind of erosion as powerful waves do when they hit the shore

  Jennifer E. Smith

  Love, Marriage, Strong

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• It is part of our "Mormon" theology that the Constitution of the United States was divinely inspired; that our Republic came into existence through wise men raised up for that very purpose. We believe it is the duty of the members of the Church to see that this Republic is not subverted either by any sudden or constant erosion of those principles which gave this Nation its birth.

  David O. McKay

  Sabio, Creer, Hombres

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• Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality. And the rhetoric of liberalism - labeling each new entitlement a 'right reinforces this sense of entitlement.' -

  Dennis Prager

  Character, Guarantees, Welfare

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• The erosion of equal opportunity is among the greatest threats to our exceptionalism as a nation. But it also provides us with an exciting and historic opportunity: to help more people than ever achieve the American Dream.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Opportunity, People

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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• Los estadounidenses de a pie, y especialmente la pequeña minoría activa en las primarias demócratas y republicanas, deben aprender más de lo que la gente de todo el mundo piensa y dice sobre Estados Unidos. Porque si siguen eso, se darán cuenta de que la erosión del poder estadounidense se está produciendo más rápidamente de lo que la mayoría de nosotros predijimos - mientras los políticos de Washington se comportan como ciervos en celo con la cornamenta bloqueada.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Pensamiento, América, Gente

  "Los estadounidenses necesitan descubrir cómo les ve el mundo", por Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. 15 de octubre de 2013.

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• Si hubiera que explicar el éxito económico de Estados Unidos con una palabra, esa palabra sería "educación".... Hasta ahora, los resultados de la negligencia educativa han sido graduales: una erosión a cámara lenta de la posición relativa de Estados Unidos. Pero las cosas están a punto de empeorar, ya que la crisis económica... asesta un duro golpe a la educación en general.... Tenemos que despertar y darnos cuenta de que una de las claves del éxito histórico de nuestra nación es ahora un activo que se desperdicia. La educación hizo grande a Estados Unidos; su abandono puede revertir el proceso.

  Paul Krugman

  Educación, Golpe, América

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• El objetivo de la privacidad no es proteger un yo estable de la erosión, sino crear límites en los que este yo pueda surgir, mutar y estabilizarse.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Yo, Objetivo, Privacidad

  Evgeny Morozov (2014). "Para salvarlo todo, haga clic aquí: La locura del solucionismo tecnológico", p.346, PublicAffairs.

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• What is proposed herein is that we have no right, nor any ethical justification, for clearing land or using wilderness while we tread over lawns, create erosion, and use land inefficiently. Our responsibility is to put our house in order. Should we do so, there will never be any need to destroy wilderness.

  Bill Mollison

  Responsibility, Order, Land

  "Permacultura: A Designers' Manual". Libro de Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking of the noble forests. And we know that such catastrophes shrivel the spirit of the people... The wilderness is pushed back, man is everywhere. Solitude, so vital to the individual man, is almost nowhere.

  Ansel Adams

  Men, Games, People

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• What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles? ... In that case America will hardly need to ponder a mystery that has troubled men for millennia. What is the purpose of life? For us, the answer will be clear, established and for all practical purposes indisputable. The purpose of life is to produce and consume automobiles.

  Jane Jacobs

  Men, America, Cities

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.370, Vintage

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• To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil, is enough to make a good farmer sick at heart.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Heart, Land, Agriculture

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• I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.

  Freya Stark

  New York, Sky, Shopping

  Freya Stark (1978). “Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46”

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• La guerra por el agua sería una obscenidad máxima. Y, sin embargo, desgraciadamente es concebible... El agua ha sido fuente durante tantos años de erosión de la confianza, de tensiones, de abusos de los derechos humanos, en realidad, de tantos en zonas cuyos suministros tradicionales de agua han sido controlados y esquilmados por las autoridades ocupacionales. Esto debe terminar si queremos desarrollar un clima de paz.

  Reina Noor de Jordania

  Guerra, Derechos, Años

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• Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.

  Paul Hawken

  Loss, Men, Ecosystems

  "Capital Gains". www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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• Suppose Vietnam could separate itself from the American dominated global system and carry out a successful social and economic development. Then that is very dangerous because then it could be a model to other movements and groups in neighboring countries. And gradually there could be an erosion from within by indigenous forces of American domination of the region.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Successful, Groups

  Fuente: chomsky.info

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• Desde el 11-S, Estados Unidos ha sido seguido por países con malos antecedentes, como los países de la antigua Unión Soviética, en la erosión de los derechos humanos. Como Estados Unidos ha cambiado sus normas, está socavando las libertades civiles en otros lugares.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Rights, Liberty

  Fuente: www.opendemocracy.net

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• There are degrees of incompatibility, and there are more factors relevant to upholding democracy and human rights than the operation of neoliberal markets. Perhaps this point can be initially made by reference to the decline of democracy and the erosion of human rights within the United States since the 9/11 attacks.

  Richard A. Falk

  Rights, Democracy, United States

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• In Kenya, one of our biggest exports is coffee. Where do you grow coffee? You grow coffee in the land. To be able to grow coffee you need rain, you need special kinds of soils that are found on hillsides, and that means you have to protect that land from soil erosion so you don't lose the soil. You also want to make sure that when the rains come you're going to be able to hold that water and have it go into the ground so that the streams and the rivers keep flowing and the ground is relatively humid for these plants.

  Wangari Maathai

  Rain, Coffee, Mean

  Fuente: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• I'm not sure [Donald] Trump has had that distinction between private and public life in his head. And so, I think there's likely to be an erosion of just that standard, that different standard, consciousness, and I think it's likely we'll see what we haven't seen in the last eight years and even the last 12 or 16 of private enrichment in office and scandals where people have to resign and things like that, because just once the standards go, behavior tends to go.

  David Brooks

  Pensar, Ocho, Años

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Está perfectamente claro que la gente, si no tiene otra alternativa, elegirá la tiranía antes que la anarquía, porque la anarquía es la peor tiranía de todas... La naturaleza especial de las libertades es que sólo pueden ser defendidas mientras aún las tengamos. Así que hay que resistirse a los primeros signos de su erosión, ya se trate de la vigilancia doméstica por parte del Ejército, de la llamada detención preventiva, de la libertad de la televisión corporativa o de la de un periódico universitario.

  Eric Sevareid

  Army, Issues, Long

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• Americans, more than most people, believe that history is the result of individual decisions to implement conscious intentions. For Americans, more than most people, history has been that.... This sense of openness, of possibility and autonomy, has been a national asset as precious as the topsoil of the Middle West. But like topsoil, it is subject to erosion; it requires tending. And it is not bad for Americans to come to terms with the fact that for them too, history is a story of inertia and the unforeseen.

  George Will

  Believe, People, History

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• The universal erosion of values has lead to the universal erosion of story.

  Robert McKee

  Stories, Universal, Values

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• La bola de demolición es característica de nuestra forma de tratar los materiales. No podemos "permitirnos" talar un bosque de forma selectiva, explotar una mina sin destruir la topografía o cultivar una tierra sin que se produzca una erosión catastrófica del suelo. Una economía orientada a la producción puede vivir así, pero sólo mientras dure la producción.

  Wendell Berry

  Long, Environmental, Balls

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• The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic to assume that the present economy would be just fine if only it would stop poisoning the air and water, or if only it would stop soil erosion, or if only it would stop degrading watersheds and forest ecosystems, or if only it would stop seducing children, or if only it would stop buying politicians, or if only it would give women and favored minorities an equitable share of the loot?

  Wendell Berry

  Children, Air, Ecosystems

  Wendell Berry (2001). "En presencia del miedo: tres ensayos para un mundo cambiado".

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