Quotes on World

For me right now I think being the world number one is a bigger deal than being the world champion because I think it shows better who plays the best chess. That sounds self-serving but I think it's also right.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at the basis of those two things. In this world we can now begin a little to understand things, and a little to master them by the help of science, which has forced its way step by step against the Christian religion, against the churches, and against the opposition of all the old precepts.

Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

If you go out and make some things happen, you will fill the world with hope.

The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world.

There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.

For one who thinks food in itself is the source of life, eating is the communion with the dying world, it is communion with death. Food itself is dead, it is life that has died and it must be kept in refrigerators like a corpse.

Pretending that the world’s religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous. What we need on this furiously religious planet is a realistic view of where religious rivals clash and where they can cooperate.

The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.

It seems the more I try to connect with the world, I am feeling more alone than I ever have felt before

My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect.

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

It is quite normal to fear what one most desires. We desire to transcend the Story of the World that has come to enslave us, that indeed is killing the planet. We fear what the end of that story will bring: the demise of much that is familiar.Fear it or not, it is happening already.

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.

World, death, devil, hell, away and leave me in peace! You have no hold on me. If you will not let me live, then I will die. But you won't succeed in that. Chop my head off, and it won't harm me. I have a God who will give me a new one.

No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education.