“We shouldn't see ourselves as ‘controllers' of the world, but as ‘actors' in the world.”
Zire Notes (May 2004 - December 2006)
“We shouldn't see ourselves as ‘controllers' of the world, but as ‘actors' in the world.”
Zire Notes (May 2004 - December 2006)
Source: The Sacred Depths of Nature (1998), p. 129
Context: We nurture our children selflessly. But we also recognize them as our most tangible sources of renewal — for a child, the world is always new. Renewal has been a religious theme throughout the ages … All of us see in children — our own and all children — the hope and promise of what we humans can become. As the forbears of our children we are called to transmit to them a joyous and sustainable vision of their future — meaning that we are each called to develop such a vision.
“Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.”
Re: United States Committee for UNICEF (25 July 1963); Box 11, President's Outgoing Executive Correspondence Series, White House Central Chronological File, Presidential Papers, Papers of John F. Kennedy http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx
1963
1960, Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American
Todo lo que nos sucede, todo lo que hablamos o nos es relatado, cuanto vemos con nuestros propios ojos o sale de nuestra lengua o entra por nuestros oídos, todo aquello a lo que asistimos (y de lo cual, por tanto, somos algo responsables), ha de tener un destinatario fuera de nosotros mismos, y a ese destinatario lo vamos seleccionando en función de lo que acontece o nos dicen o bien decimos nosotros.
Source: Todas las Almas [All Souls] (1989), p. 140
Speech on the Hot Women Campaign at UK Aware (April 2008)
1950s, Address at the Philadelphia Convention Hall (1956)