The World Quotes

Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

If you want truth to go around the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go around the world, it will fly; it is light as a feather and a breath will carry it.

Abolition—Yes! abolish everything on the face of the earth but this Union; free every slave—slay every traitor—burn every rebel mansion, if these things be necessary to preserve this temple of freedom to the world and to our posterity.

Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind

World government will come, but we do not know the date.

Philosophers have interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it

At the end of Friday, March 3, 1933, thirty-two states had closed all their banks ... Six other states had closed almost all their banks. In the other ten states and in the District of Columbia withdrawals were limited to 5 percent of deposits and in Texas to ten dollars per day. The U.S. financial system had reached the last extremity before it would collapse completely, taking the life's savings of tens of millions of people and what was left of the international economic system with it.

We are the dominant power. And that imposes on us a responsibility to be actually concerned with the well-being of the world.

Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world' so His intention is the salvation of men, and it is called 'the Church.'

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. I suppose we all realize the degree to which fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

All the cant and hypocrisy, all the damnable survivals, all the vestiges of old truths now putrid and false infect the air, choke you worse than German gas—The ministers from their damn smug pulpits, the business men—the heroics about war—my country right or wrong—oh infinities of them! Oh the tragic farce of the world.

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

Other nations struggle to gain more territory, more food, more petroleum. Spain has battled and will continue to do battle so that there are more Catholics and honourable men in the world.

What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field. That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning. This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it. That life is the world. That my will penetrates the world. That my will is good or evil. Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God. And connect with this the comparison of God to a father.

Do we really want a world in which every country feels entitled to attack any other that might someday threaten it?

The world works better when people have freedom.

Hopefully, the world will not have a lot of different privacy standards requirements--particularly some commonality between the United States and Europe.

The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from the latin mundus, meaning 'the world'. And the world is anything but dull: The world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

A wise man’s country is the world.

I consider peace between world religions as a prerequisite for peace among the nations

Everybody in the world knows that if you are arrested by the United States, nothing bad will happen to you.

For social movements seeking to shape the governance of the world economy, all roads still lead to the state.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven