- Mother
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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
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too. They are the most blessed people in the world, and they don't appreciate it.
- Soul
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- Nov 07, 2020
The voice of women has a special role and a special soul force in the struggle for a nonviolent world.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I'm yet peaceful because I have to struggle every day within myself when I see the suffering of the people of the world, the women and the children. And fury sets in. But I have to transform that and take it out and do something positive with it - but I have to do that sometimes minute to minute.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to assure that we are nurturing our children and meeting their every need in this violent world.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peace in the world is everybody's business, no matter where you live or what you do.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Turmoil is everywhere, and the whole world is waiting for solutions to come from the top down. That's not how it works - community change from the bottom up makes a real difference.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not sexist in any way - sexism is another form of violence, and there are many great men in this world.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Governments do not have the answers - indeed, quite the reversal. A lot of times, they not only do not have the answers, but they themselves are the problem. If we are committed to helping our world's children, then we must begin to create solutions from the bottom up.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 50 years, the world has changed, especially for kids, but kids' needs haven't changed. They still need to feel safe, be close to their families, like their teachers, and have friends to play with.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I'd be... it's really, you know, still fascinating for me.
- Climb
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will climb the gallows gladly and show to the world as to how bravely the revolutionaries can sacrifice themselves for the cause.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never have my CNN off, it's on the whole day. I don't want to be out of range of television. I'm constantly bombarded by information - Somalia one second, Haiti the next - I need that constant pounding. I couldn't write without television. I need to have the world in my room.
- Ferocity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020