We can't change the fossil fuel companies' behavior in isolation from the rest of the industrial system. As long as they have customers, they're going to continue to operate, whether or not we divest of their stock. However, divesting might be helpful in terms of disrupting the story that what these companies do is perfectly okay. This situation differs from apartheid in a key regard though: racial equality in South Africa was no threat whatsoever to capitalism as we know it. Ending the fossil fuel era is a much deeper change.
Up there, up there in the vastness of space, in the void that is sky, up there is an enemy known as isolation. It sits there in the stars waiting, waiting with the patience of eons, forever waiting in the Twilight Zone.
Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.
When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.
Battling terrorism must go beyond belligerence vs. isolation.
She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.
I walk out my front door in New York and I'm out on the street and there are people everywhere. L. A. is so much more spread out, so it's really easy in L. A. to have a little more isolation and to just not see as many people.
Isolation is a big part of songwriting.
Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life.
Helping reproductive services doesn't just help women in isolation. It helps men just as much.
To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.
When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to be by yourself and you are by nature timid.
The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.
The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.
I am interested in the loneliness and isolation that we can feel when we hide feelings we are ashamed of, especially if they concern people that we love.
I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people. . . to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.
I'm always writing. It's kind of a curse: You never stop. But I need isolation to write. So the real meat of the material comes when I'm off the road.
For anyone with the traits - of feeling himself victimized, of seeking to be the strongman who resolves everything, yet sees truth only through his own self and negates all other truth outside of it - is bound to become more malignant when he has power. Power then breeds an intensification of all this because the power can never be absolute power - to some extent it's stymied - but the isolation while in power becomes even more dangerous. Think of it as a vicious circle. The power intensifies these tendencies and the tendencies become more dangerous because of the power.
Love often leads to healing, while fear and isolation breed illness. And our biggest fear is abandonment.