- 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
- American Foreign Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about that. Criticizing government is a God-given right - at least in democracies.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The amount of military force necessary to provide reassurance depends on how dangerous people think the world is. And that I think ultimately depends upon the kinds of government that hold sway in major countries.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world. What happened in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania ended the lives of thousands of people and changed the lives of many more. But they did not change the world.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, a blow to the international system's strongest power would have been welcomed by its rivals. In the wake of September 11, however, every significant government in the world declared its support for the United States.
- Democratic
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries.
- Nov 07, 2020
One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see the world from the perspective of a 5'8" person, not someone who is 6'4". so naturally, I'm going to choose certain lens heights over and again... Sometimes nature makes choices for you.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.
- Columns
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020