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Quotes About World

I really believe that to have a full impression of Jesus, both as Christ as a man, you must know about the world that gave shape to him - the world out of which he arose.
~ Reza Aslan
The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin.
~ Maureen McCormick
I don't know whether the world is full of smart men bluffing or imbeciles who mean it.
~ Morrie Brickman
Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.
~ Paul Ricoeur
The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.
~ Omar Bongo
The Bible carries with it the history of the creation, the fall and redemption of man, and discloses to him, in the infant born at Bethlehem, the Legislator and Savior of the world.
~ John Quincy Adams
All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.
~ Konrad Lorenz
If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.
~ Vaclav Havel
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
~ Charles Baudelaire
The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world.
~ Edgar Morin
The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.
~ Franz Schubert
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
There is nothing great in the world that does not owe its origin to the creative ability of an individual man.
~ Adolf Hitler
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
~ Carolyn Wells
God does not rule the world outwardly by gravitation and chemical affinity, but inwardly in the heart of man: as is your soul, so will the destiny be of the world in which you live and do.
~ Egon Friedell
The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.
~ Francois Fenelon
Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
~ Henry Fielding
A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.
~ Marshall McLuhan
The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.
~ Saint Augustine
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
~ Albert Camus
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
~ Antonin Artaud