The Soviets held to the tradition of colonialism. They raped the country and killed many people. But they also built dams, electrical power plants, streets, and technical schools. They were communists and had the same vision for Afghanistan that Stalin and Lenin had for the Soviet Union: Progress is communism plus electrification. And today? Today Kabul gets its electrical power from Uzbekistan, Herat from Iran and Jalalabad from Pakistan.
The population explosion is an ecological phenomenon of displacement. Unless we solve that ecological problem of displacing people - to build huge dams, to build motorways, to take away what people need in order to survive - we will keep pumping more and more money into population programs. We will have more and more coercive and violent methods through which women's bodies are treated as experimental grounds for new contraceptives. Yet we will not have a solution to the problem of numbers.
The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high dam had suddenly been breached.
Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.
Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.
You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow. You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it.
Whether its veterans disability claims, infrastructure projects, dam safety, or helping our farmers, what I am focused on is being useful for folks in the Hudson Valley.
The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
Like water leaking through a dam," said Piper. "Yeah," smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole. " "What?" Piper asked. "Nothing," he said. "Inside joke.
For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.
At one level it's clear that the dam has broken. There's an inevitable move to use the Internet as a distribution medium and that's not going to stop.
I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty dam good!
It doesn't make you bad losing to Rob Van Dam. . . it just makes you like everybody else.
Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. . . Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition.
All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam constructions, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of previously settled land.
The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.
Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.