You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstacles are social and political - what you need is the will to do it.
The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power.
The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way.
We should not just consume hydrocarbon fuel but use it to develop nuclear energy, hydro power and renewable energy sources.
Clean water and power is our right as humans on this earth, and for too long, our governments in Africa have failed to provide these things.
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the 'capstone,' with continuing latter day revelation. The Lord has placed His stamp of approval on both the keystone and the capstone.
I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
I know it's very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region.
