World State Quotes

A world authority and an eventual world state are not just desirable in the name of brotherhood, they are necessary for survival.

The jihad was…employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state.

The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.

The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.

When I was a kid in the '50s, during the Eisenhower years, everything seemed to be working fine. I don't recall as a teenager ever worrying about the state of the future world.

The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory.

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.

In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.

However much America may attempt to hold herself free in Europe she will very deeply feel the effects, both material and moral, of upheavals like that which is now shaking the old Continent; that even though there be no aggressive action against her, the militarization of Europe will force upon America also a militarist development; and that she can best avoid these dangers and secure her own safety and free development by taking the lead in a new world policy which is briefly this: To use her position to initiate and guide a grouping of all the civilized powers having as its object the protection of any one of its members that is the victim of aggression. The aid to be given for such an object should not be, in the case of the United States, military but economic, by means of the definite organization of non-intercourse against the recalcitrant power. America's position of geographical and historical remoteness from European quarrels places her in a particularly favorable position to direct this world organization, and the fact of undertaking it would give her in some sense the moral leadership of the western world, and make her the centre of the World State of the future.

Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can't even finish my second apple pie.

What time is it on the clock of the world?

The world is fine. Our place on it is precarious.

If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state than it is now !

All you need to do is turn on the news, and in five minutes, you're depressed with the state of the world. Choosing joy is a completely active choice. It doesn't just happen. You can't just say, 'I want to be happy.' You have to take action.

I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.

I don't have much time for stories," Vin said. "Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days." A canopy kept off the ash, but he seemed unconcerned about the mists. "It makes me wonder what is so alluring about the real world that gives them all such a fetish for it. It's not a very nice place these days.

Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other, usually depending on the state of the world.

For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

The state of the world petrifies me as much as it does everyone else at the moment. Anyone who comes to my show expecting incisive political analysis will be deeply disappointed.

Although the ICRC and the World Economic Forum have separate missions, they both are centred on collaboration across sectors and between various actors in order to improve the state of the world.

The world state is inherent in the United Nations as an oak tree is in an acorn.

I think people are turning inward more now cause the world's got in such a weird, crazy state. I think its making people think more about their life and what it is really that they are doing. And how do we interact with a world that's going crazy? It's a very important time.

We're better off. But I don't know if the world's better off. I don't know if the two are the same thing.