Ivy Baker Priest Quotes

None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.

You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.

It's pretty much, having everything on your shoulder versus depending on an entire team.

America is not what's wrong with the world.

Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary

It's up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.

I would say the world's in terrible shape, but I'm afraid the world would say, "Look who's talking".

The world is a grindstone and life is your nose

The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than from individual choices and behavior. To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by 'society'.

I'm not trying to change things in the world and trying to use my leverage to do so. The only thing I'm trying to change in the world is that I'm trying to increase the amount of useful information in it. And entertainment, honestly.

I think the world is in the mess it's in because we are spiritually ignorant.

There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great responsibilities, whether it will or no. We have now reached that time. We cannot avoid facing the fact that we occupy a new place among the people of the world.

What [Donald] Trump is essentially saying is what has always been the case: America is the solution to the problems of the world. But to [Barack] Obama and Hillary [Clinton] and many on the left, America's the problem. America and its superpower status is the problem in the world.

We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.

Life is in one of its smoother phases ... I've no responsibilities in the world except friends and students and cherishing the life of the world -- and the belief that there is enough love to go round.

We also need to remember the enduring principles on which the National Party is based – individual responsibility, support for families and communities, and a belief that the State can't and shouldn't do everything.

The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

A better world could be brought about only by better individuals.

The world's become a little too mean.

I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.

One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.