Quotes on World

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

It is clear that the nations of the world now can only rise and fall together. It is not a question of one nation winning at the expense of another. We must all help one another or all perish together.

We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.

There is no trust more sacred than the_x000D_ _x000D_ one the world holds with children.

We must have research for peace ... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect, his scientific method, to win over the immoral brutality and irrationality of war and militarism ... Now we are forced to eliminate from the world forever this vestige of prehistoric barbarism, this curse to the human race.

It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should life the world forward. That is what they are for.

"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."

[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.

Simplicity, patience, compassion._x000D_ _x000D_ These three are your greatest treasures._x000D_ _x000D_ Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being._x000D_ _x000D_ Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are._x000D_ _x000D_ Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request._x000D_ _x000D_ It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.

I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space.

And on her lover's arm she leant,_x000D_ _x000D_ And round her waist she felt it fold,_x000D_ _x000D_ And far across the hills they went_x000D_ _x000D_ In that new world which is the old.

True love is but a humble, low born thing,_x000D_ _x000D_ And hath its food served up in earthenware;_x000D_ _x000D_ It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand,_x000D_ _x000D_ Through the every-dayness of this workday world.

A ruddy drop of manly blood_x000D_ _x000D_ The surging sea outweighs;_x000D_ _x000D_ The world uncertain comes and goes,_x000D_ _x000D_ The lover rooted stays.

God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures_x000D_ _x000D_ Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with,_x000D_ _x000D_ One to show a woman when he loves her.

I detect more good than evil in humanity._x000D_ _x000D_ Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes,_x000D_ _x000D_ And men grow better as the world grows old.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.