652 Quotes by Al Gore

When you pray, move your feet.” Prayer without action, like optimism without engagement, is passive aggression toward the future. Even.

We’re operating this planet like a business in liquidation.

Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that my own hands, all of my life, I put in the plant beds and transferred it! I hoed it! I’ve dug in it! I’ve sprayed it! I’ve chopped it! I’ve shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it!

ManBearPig, half man, half bear, half pig.

The task of saving the earth’s environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.

It’s an important point, and every little bit helps not least because those who make those kinds of changes are more likely to make their voices heard as citizens. But the ultimate solutions are going to come through policies.

There is an old African proverb that says if you want to go quickly, go alone, if you want to go far, go together. We have to go far, quickly, and that means we have to quickly find a way to change the world’s consciousness about exactly what we are facing and how we have to work to solve it.

The subjugation of news by entertainment seriously harms our democracy: It leads to dysfunctional journalism that fails to inform the people. And when the people are not informed, they cannot hold government accountable when it is incompetent, corrupt, or both.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it’s a challenge to the moral imagination.