- 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
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My hope is that the music will serve as a metaphor for the actions taken by the inhabitants of this wonderful planet as a call for world harmony on all levels.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.
- Technology
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.
- Borne
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- Nov 07, 2020
The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in Western Europe and all the world over. But the workers in Western Europe stand alone: this should never be forgotten in Russia.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.
- Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.
- Nov 07, 2020
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
- Sin
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.
- Madness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020