Ed Ayres Professions : Writer Born : 1941 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Ed Ayres What's true for us as individual humans is true for the civilization we create: Ed Ayres speed civilization culture Sport, which mimics the language and emotional intensity of war but eliminates Ed Ayres emotional sports war It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides Ed Ayres ironic greek athlete Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on the crisis, as they fall. Ed Ayres acceptance courage fall We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human heritage. But Thom Hartmann shows how we've already let that happen on a frightening scale - not in Frankenstein's monsters or Kubrick's creeping computer Hal - but in the corporations that present their friendly 'faces' to us as if we have nothing to fear from this ultimate usurpation of our rights as real humans. Ed Ayres real rights friendly Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors