Quotes About World

We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance.

I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to. I wish to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.

Now, at this day in the history of the world we can no more foretell where the end of this slavery agitation will be than we can see the end of the world itself.

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can

He didn't say, Uncluttered is the privilege of the rich these days. Or: In a world of built-in obsolescence, saved means saddled with.

Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.

Écrire, disait [Georges Perros], c'est renoncer au monde en implorant le monde de ne pas renoncer à nous. (p. 37)

How many new girls will it take to change the world?

Not revenge. Justice. And not just for us and our parents, but for the whole world.

The ways in which scientific research is implicated in the worst excesses of colonialism remains a powerful remembered history for many of the world's colonized peoples

A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of them?

Now, all that I feared would happen has happened. We are at war all over the world, and we are unprepared for it from either a spiritual or a material standpoint. Fortunately, in spite of all that has been said, the oceans are still difficult to cross; and we have the time to adjust and prepare.

Above all, no thought. Nothing is more compromising than a thought. Rather the state preceding thought, the throng of yet unborn thoughts, the promise of future thoughts, the world as it was before god created it -- a recrudescence of chaos. Chaos induces intimations.

Mathematics is the most beautiful world. Everyone has their own entry key and the freedom to discover as much of it as they want.

Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.

The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn into girls and back again doesn't help much. The useful magic's never at hand. The three wishes and the genies in bottles, seven-league boots, invisible cloaks and all. They stay in the stories, while out here in the wide world we have to muddle through as best we can on our own.

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.

What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

Come! our world is done: For all the witchery of the world is fled, And lost all wanton wisdom long since won.

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

Children live in the same world we do.To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive, it's a vanity.We want to be able to tell ourselves what good parents we are, that we're doing our best.

It was a whole world, his mouth, a whole unsuspected world, and kissing him occasioned the same sense of discovery as sliding a clear drop of plain tap water under a microscope and divining whole schools of fantastic fibrillose creatures, or pointing a telescope at a patch of sky pitch-dark to the naked eye and lo, it is spattered with stars.