Quotes on World

If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.

Hugs are helpful, especially when women step out into a mostly male political world. Emotional support, at critical moments, enables women to stay in the race.

If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave.

Before social media, if I, as an individual wanted to publish something to the world, unless I could get some local TV crew to interview me, or I wrote an op-ed or took out an ad, I had no voice.

The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.

Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal but clearly immoral. Slavery was legal. Did that make it moral? South Africa’s apartheid, Nazi persecution of Jews, and Stalinist and Maoist purges were all legal, but did that make them moral?

When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

The information revolution has changed people's perception of wealth. We originally said that land was wealth. Then we thought it was industrial production. Now we realize it's intellectual capital. The market is showing us that intellectual capital is far more important that money. This is a major change in the way the world works. the same thing that happened to the farmers during the Industrial Revolution is now happening to people in industry as we move into the information age.

The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.

There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.

It's about doing something larger than yourself. It's about serving this world, helping others.

Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.

Readers no longer need novelists to tell us what it's like to cross the world on a ship or fight a war. In the twenty-first century, we get that information in other ways. The thing that's still a mystery to us is the human heart. What we want is to understand people, what they're doing, and why they're doing it.

Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.