Quotes About World

It affirmed that international law was not only law 'between States' but 'also the law of mankind'. Those who transgressed it would have no immunity, even if they were leaders, a reflection of the 'outraged conscience of the world'.

It is just good practice to do a situational scan and have situational awareness when you are out in the world.

We were supposed to be an English literature class, but Miss Nesbitt used literature to teach real life. She said she didn't have time to teach us like a regular English teacher--we were too far behind. Instead, she taught us the world through literature.

The Japanese believe that sadness comes from an awareness of the fragility of life at the same time one is captivated by its transient beauty. The cherry blossoms. But that is a very superficial understanding of sadness, may I say. True sadness arises when we realize that the world around us is imperishable, and rather ugly.

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth, and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

Sitting still as a way of falling in love with the world and everything in it;

Le modèle productiviste sur lequel repose l'organisation du monde moderne est absurde! Prétendre que l'on peut continuer dans cette voie et satisfaire aux besoins de chaque être humain sur cette base est aberrant et mensonger.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world. Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis -Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ

It seems to me that the Russian prestige is declining and that America holds in its hands the immediate future of the world: as long as America knows how to develop the sense of the earth at the same time as her sense of liberty. [Written from Peking, October 1945, on the eve of departure, after having been stuck there since the war began.]

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

Whereas, our argument shows that the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye was unable to turn from darkness to light without the whole body, so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the world of becoming into that of being, and learn by degrees to endure the sight of being, and of the brightest and best of being, or in other words, of the good.

Consider, too, how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.

The great enemy of Plato is the world, not exactly in the theological sense, yet in one not wholly different--the world as the hater of truth and lover of appearance, occupied in the pursuit of gain and pleasure rather than of knowledge, banded together against the few good and wise men, and devoid of true education.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils

I have said enough in answer to the charge of Meletus: any elaborate defence is unnecessary, but I know only too well how many are the enmities which I have incurred, and this is what will be my destruction if I am destroyed;—not Meletus, nor yet Anytus, but the envy and detraction of the world, which has been the death of many good men, and will probably be the death of many more; there is no danger of my being the last of them.

Of the Greek authors who at the Renaissance brought a new life into the world Plato has had the greatest influence.

Cronos, then lord of the world, knew that no mortal nature could endure the temptations of power, and therefore he appointed demons or demi-gods, who are of a superior race, to have dominion over man, as man has dominion over the animals

No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his skin, the evil tidings of what man's presumption made of man in Auschwitz.

Survival without renunciation of any part of one's own moral world – apart from powerful and direct interventions by fortune – was conceded only to very few superior individuals, made of the stuff of martyrs and saints.

El hecho de que unos creen arte mientras otros padecen, ¿no es una prueba escandalosa de la injusticia del mundo? ¿Cómo pueden concordar entre sí el sollozo del mundo y el canto del arte?

Truths were carved from the identical wood as were lies--words--and so sank or floated with identical ease. But since truths were carved by the World, they rarely appeased Men and their innumerable vanities. Men had no taste for facts that did not ornament or enrich, and so they willfully--if not knowingly--panelled their lives with shining and intricate falsehoods.