I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.
Interpretation
The quote advocates for a collective awareness and shift towards vegetarianism for ethical and environmental reasons.
Richard Dawkins expresses a desire for a widespread movement that elevates collective consciousness regarding dietary choices, specifically advocating for vegetarianism. This suggests that a deeper understanding of the implications of meat consumption on health, ethics, and the environment could lead to significant societal changes in favor of vegetarianism.
In practice
This quote can inspire a campaign about plant-based diets in schools.
No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to pass on this falsehood to their children...I would want to argue that the truth of evolution is more interesting and more poetic
If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost any measure of civilised attainment, from Nobel prize-counts on down, the U.S. leads the world by miles.
When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course the system is wide open to exploitation by parasites.
Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of a Jewish State in an Islamic region. In view of all that the Jews had been through, it must have seemed a fair and humane solution. Probably deep familiarity with the Old Testament had given the European and American decision-makers some sort of idea that this really was the historic homeland of the Jews.
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
If we had done the work that we should have done in the 20th century to combat our history of racial inequality, no one could win national office after demonizing people because they're Mexican or Muslim. We would be in a place where we would find that unacceptable.
That is our generation’s task - to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American.
A revolution that does not produce a new space has not realized its full potential
The time we are living in is the greatest opportunity to be queer, and it is almost the most dangerous time because everything is up for grabs.
There is no debate about whether or not climate change is happening. We will deal with it as a challenge. But we also take it as an opportunity to invest.
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