World Quotes


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Any child born into the hugely consumptionist way of life so common in the industrial world will have an impact that is, on average, many times more destructive than that of a child born in the developing world

- Anna Edwin

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

- Archie Massicotte

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.

- Andy McKenzie

The world enslaves our sex by the mere fear of an epithet; and as long as it can throw any vile term at us, before which we cower, it can maintain our enslavement

- Barbara Moquin

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good, and the very gentle, and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.

- Ernest Hemingway

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression

- James Madison

Democracy don`t rule the world, You`d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that`s better left unsaid.

- Bob Dylan

The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything

- Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

- Albert Einstein

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.

- Albert Einstein

The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don`t do anything about it.

- Albert Einstein

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

- Anaïs Nin

The world today doesn`t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

- Pablo Picasso

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

- Winston Churchill

In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

- Oscar Wilde

The world has been made by fools that men should live in it

- Oscar Wilde

Declare World Party I !

- Vanna Bonta

Don`t go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first

- Mark Twain

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

- George Bernard Shaw

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation

- Dean Acheson

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Don`t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

- Charles M. Schulz

What`s the use of a fine house if you haven`t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

- Henry David Thoreau

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness

- Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

- Buddha
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To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.

- Claude Simon

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian

- Dennis Wholey

It is our illusions that create the world

- Didier Cauwelaert

Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?

- Don Williams, Jr

I am not in this world to live up to other people`s expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

- Fritz Perls

The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion

- Kevin Patterson

By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever

- Lao Tzu
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The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing.

- Natalie Kocsis

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea`s and common ideals.

- Robert M. Hutchins

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

- Ruth Benedict

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

- Saint Augustine

Ninety percent of the world`s woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.

- Sydney J. Harris

The world is a garden of philosophy. God is its gardener; Man is the visitor. And any tree that does not bear fruits of philosophy either does not belong to that garden or is yet to be grown.

- Kedar Joshi

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.

- Kedar Joshi

"I find it`s a weird world that we live in," Allen says. "I`m the worst culprit. I`m a total victim to material things. But you don`t forget, because you`re consuming at that rate and people are directly suffering as a result."

- Lily Allen

The end of the world is not taking place in 2012.

- Bar Refaeli