- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adults who've got salt and sugar addictions and just ways of being in this world. It's very hard even for the most enlightened people at famous universities that are very wealthy to spend the money that it takes to feed the students something delicious.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think America's food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, it's very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020