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Quotes About World

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!
~ Lord Byron
Let me tell you, Barack Obama is the most down dude in the world, but he's so smart so articulate, such an amazing speaker such a passionate man. He's humble.
~ Marlon Wayans
If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes of men the world over.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
~ Matthew Arnold
Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.
~ Morarji Desai
Can you envision a world without men? No wrongdoing and bunches of euphoric, fat women.
~ Nicole Hollander
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
~ Norman Mailer
The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires.
~ Rem Koolhaas
All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.
~ Robert Burns
Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
~ Samuel Butler
Man thinks his mind's love for world power and his heart's love for world peace can live together. Indeed, this is the height of man's stupidity.
~ Sri Chinmoy
It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing a play about a man driven by that thought.
~ Susanna Kaysen
It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.
~ Theodor Adorno
Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
~ William Allen White
For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.
~ William Penn
And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That makes ingrateful man!
~ William Shakespeare
The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.
~ Paulo Freire
The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler.
~ Albert Einstein
The world is a nest of crows; some caw in praise; some caw in derision. But men should be above the reach of praise and blame.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Why doesn't the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie?
~ Steven Wright
The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
~ Toni Morrison
Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.
~ Vernon Howard
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.
~ W. Somerset Maugham