Quotes on World

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?