Quotes on World

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.

As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future.

World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even if 1 per cent of it were redirected towards development, the world would be much closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.

We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.

We, the people of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know:_x000D_ That South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of the people.

We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity, comprehensibility and universality.

Why, lies are like a sticky juice overspreading the world, a living, growing flypaper to catch and gum the wings of every human soul. . . And the little helpless buzzings of honest, liberal, kindly people, aren't they like the thin little noise flies make when they're caught?

You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.

The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?

To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.

Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you; it is your murderer, and the murderer of the world: use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used. Kill it before it kills you.

This world is bullshit. And you shouldn't model your life — wait a second — you shouldn't model your life about what you think that we think is cool and what we're wearing and what we're saying and everything. Go with yourself. Go with yourself.

Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.

The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with whom life is a series of struggles, is not to give way to any morbid sentimentality when duty demands sternness and the boldness to face terrible things.

It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

If you want a change in the world, be the change

World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.

In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.