Quotes About World

Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body.

Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

We will spend the rest of the day inventing a kind of love that no longer exists in the world, a kind of love no army can pillage at the outposts, no rumor could bring to its knees like a traitor.

...at dawn, the grains of sleep turn to floating black spots, then out of focus the world tilts, and the cat scratches at the door...

The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.

Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.

Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics.

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Personally, I believe there's a limitation to how much politics can change the world--but there's no limitation to how much individuals can change the world.

There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear.

Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.

Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.

You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace or gallantry in commerce or politics and not much in art.