"Because operators are based thousands of miles away from the battlefield, and undertake operations entirely through computer screens and remote audio feed, there is a risk of developing a 'PlayStation' mentality to killing."

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Source : "Drone warfare: life on the new frontline" by Chris Woods, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2015.

Philip Alston

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“Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but itâ€™s valuable in a marathon.”

Source : Adam Grant (2013). “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success”, p.20, Penguin
“America is ready for livable communities. America is ready for high-speed rail.”
“There is a kind, I might almost say, of artistic satisfaction, when we are able to survey the enormous wealth of Nature as a regularly ordered whole a kosmos, an image of the logical thought of our own mind.”

Source : Hermann von Helmholtz (1873). “Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects”, p.319
“No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.”
“There is no book that has had as much opposition as the Bible. Men have laughed at it, they have scorned it, they have ridiculed it, they have made laws against it.”
“The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid erosion, pollution, environmental degradation, and resource waste. Any rational food-production system will emphasize the well-being of the soil-air-water biosphere, the creatures which inhabit it, and the human beings who depend upon it.”
“Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.”

Source : Iain McGilchrist (2009). “The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World”, p.436, Yale University Press
“Dear God, please reveal to us your sublime beauty, that is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, so that we will never again feel frightened.”

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