Shocking Sayings
1,057 sayings found from the Contemporary era
At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn't think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn't be focusing on anything else.
We have to tell it like it is. Because if there are no positive things to tell, then what should we do, should we spread false hope?
This ongoing irresponsible behavior will no doubt be remembered in history as one of the greatest failures of humankind.
We live in a strange world, where we think we can buy or build our way out of a crisis that has been created by buying and building things.
So everyone out there: it is now time for civil disobedience. It is time to rebel.
Nor does hardly anyone ever mention that we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction, with about 200 species going extinct every single day.
To all of you who choose to look the other way every day because you seem more frightened of the changes that can prevent catastrophic climate change than the catastrophic climate change itself. Your silence is almost worst of all.
The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. We must stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. The hardest because our current economics are still totally dependent on bur…
We children are doing this to wake the adults up. We children are doing this for you to put your differences aside and start acting as you would in a crisis.
Our environment is being sacrificed for the opportunity for a very small number of people to continue making enormous amounts of money.
If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great!
Violence is fun, man.
Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment.
You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.
I have a big thing about killing animals in movies. That's a bridge I can't cross.
Insects too. Unless I'm paying to see some bizarro documentary, I'm not paying to see real death. Part of the way that this all works is that it's all just make believe. That's why I can stand the violent scenes, cause we're all just f**king around.
I'd kill a million rats, but I don't necessarily want to kill one in a movie or see one killed in a movie, because I'm not paying to see real death.
I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.
If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.