Susan Sontag Quotes

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do.

Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.

No act of government can save the world.

If we can move together as a species, I think that there is a possibility that we can make the world a better place.

Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Individual scientists cannot do much on their own. Heads of nations, corporates, and economic giants should recognise the criticality of it.

One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.

I believe that there are new perspectives that are needed in order for us to resolve the problems that we face as Americans and also the problems we face as people on this planet, and I believe that new perspective and new leadership is needed.

No one doubts the enormity of the social challenges we face around the world but one critical element of our response must be the generation of new thinking and ideas. Yet creating the conditions that make this possible is not simple.

When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change.

If I could create a world where people lived forever, or at the very least a few billion years, I would do so. I don't think humanity will always be stuck in the awkward stage we now occupy, when we are smart enough to create enormous problems for ourselves, but not quite smart enough to solve them.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

We live in a world that is full of problems, and we are the solutions to those problems.

I think there are so many problems in the world today, we have to figure out how to fix them rather than point fingers at each other.

Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?

If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

I believe the only way we'll be able to solve infant mortality - and other huge social problems - is by designing solutions for those with the greatest intent to carry it out.

When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.

You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, 'I wonder what we ought to do?' Things are seldom crystal clear.

Global challenges require collective responses.

It's up to people like us, all of us, to address and talk about things like runaway global warming and how we can use things like remote viewing to save our planet.