Jeremy Rifkin Empathic Civilization Quotes

#1. Our waterboarding program is based on the U.S. military training program ... tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen were waterboarded pursuant to this program to prepare them for the possibility of being captured someday so that they would know what it felt like.

Jose Rodriguez

#2. Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn..

Dan Brown

#3. Knowledge may have its purposes,
but guessing is always
more fun than knowing.

W. H. Auden

#4. Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Dorothy Allison

#5. Well, you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying.

Charlie Waite

#6. For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Rontgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new ...

Alexander Fleming

#7. Know what one of the guys at the drive-through Starbucks has on his forearm?" Bernadette said. "A paper clip! It used to be so daring to get a tattoo. And now people are tattooing office supplies on their bodies.

Maria Semple

#8. Ahh, I know." Dr. Shandy looked relieved. "Some of this wine will be just the right thing. Have some."
"Will it help?" Jam asked.
"Well, no, it never actually helps. But it's a really nice vintage.

Kaza Kingsley

#9. The Empathic Civilization is emerging. A younger generation is fast extending its empathic embrace beyond religious affiliations and national identification to include the whole of humanity and the vast project of life that envelops the Earth.

Jeremy Rifkin