Historical
- French Directory or Directorate, one of the French Revolution's governing bodies, 1795–1799
- Directorate of Ukraine, provisional revolutionary state committee of the Ukrainian National Republic, 1918–1920
- Directorate (Russia), the ruling body of the Russian Provisional Government, September–October 1917
- Directorate of Military Intelligence, a department of the War Office (United Kingdom), disestablished 1964
- Immigration and Nationality Directorate, an agency of the Home Office (United Kingdom), disestablished 2007
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“Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody’s mom in that she knows what’s best for us. But if you look at the historical record—Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages—you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.”
—Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)