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Quotes About World

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
~ John Milton
The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.
~ Javier Bardem
Nothing gets us down more than watching violence on television or reading about war and brutality in the newspaper. The truth is, there's a massive reduction in the amount of violence around the world.
~ Peter Diamandis
Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.
~ Ivar Giaever
I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children
~ Holly Near
Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
~ Ludwig von Mises
I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.
~ Cass Elliot
Faith is not accepting the world as it is but insisting on building the world God wants.
~ Shane Claiborne
Food is strength, and food is peace, and food is freedom, and food is a helping hand to people around the world whose good will and friendship we want.
~ John F. Kennedy
Hitler is still such a popular man; we are afraid of the Hitler myth. We want to give to the German people and to the world the final proof by means of the Supreme Court-Martial and its verdict.
~ Walther von Brauchitsch
That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.
~ Kristin Hersh
I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.
~ Will Rogers
New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.
~ Taylor Momsen
Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.
~ Oscar Wilde
People just want to have access to all of the world's music.
~ Daniel Ek
Wherever I am in the world I want to be creating new projects and innovations, which are exciting and make a difference to communities.
~ David Batstone
We are tapping into what the world wants: to be a part of change.
~ Emma Watson
Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.
~ Gary Ross
In life, if one wants seriously to understand how the world works, he must die at least once.
~ Giorgio Bassani
As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.
~ Jesse James Garrett
Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.
~ Joe Biden
"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.