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Quotes About World

I detect more good than evil in humanity. Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, And men grow better as the world grows old.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It's a funny old world. A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive.
~ W. C. Fields
The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.
~ Nikola Tesla
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
~ Charlie Chaplin
What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in.
~ Sean O'Casey
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
~ Robert Bolt
But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.
~ Joe Hill
Meditation makes the man Divine and brings the Divine to the world of man.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.
~ Isaac Watts
White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.
~ Michael Kimmel
I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men.
~ Paul Krugman
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
~ Omar N. Bradley
Ah, believer, it is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests; God did not cast man out of Paradise that he might find another paradise in this world.
~ Thomas Brooks
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
~ William Penn
Never has our nation , or our world, stood on the precipice of adversity in such dire need of men answering the cry to rule well.
~ Tony Evans
Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.
~ Harvey Cox
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.
~ Henry de Montherlant
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
~ Jane Austen
When life attains a crisis, man's focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.
~ Jim Thompson
A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.
~ John Keats
The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.
~ John Owen
Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.
~ Sam Harris