--- title: "8 World Affected Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 8 World Affected quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best World Affected sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a9/gregory-porter-10292_father_the-songs-i-write-and-the-way-i-see-the_192179.jpg" --- > [The songs I write and the way I see the world have been affected a certain amount since I became a father.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-porter/the-songs-i-write-and-the-way-i-see-the-world-have-been-affected-a/) [Gregory Porter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-porter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a9/gregory-porter-10292_father_the-songs-i-write-and-the-way-i-see-the_192179.jpg) > [We live in a small world, and we all are affected by everything that happens everywhere. And to look at it less…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natalie-portman/we-live-in-a-small-world-and-we-all-are-affected-by-everything-that/) [Natalie Portman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natalie-portman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c9b/natalie-portman-1515_affected_we-live-in-a-small-world-and-we-all-are_1336132.jpg) > [I'm overwhelmed by the pain in the world; I'm affected by the news very much, and adding that to my work was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu/i-m-overwhelmed-by-the-pain-in-the-world-i-m-affected-by-the-news/) [Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/79a/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-12_adding_i-m-overwhelmed-by-the-pain-in-the-world_2061137.jpg) > [We don't realise how much the world has affected us. We put God in the background.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-blackaby/we-don-t-realise-how-much-the-world-has-affected-us-we-put-god-in-the/) [Henry Blackaby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-blackaby/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/402/henry-blackaby-10732_affected_we-don-t-realise-how-much-the-world-has_2111521.png) > [“Let us suppose that the great empire of China, with all its myriads of inhabitants, was suddenly swallowed up by an earthquake,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/let-us-suppose-that-the-great-empire-of-china-with-all-its-myriads-of/) [Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/020/adam-smith-1040_e-commerce_let-us-suppose-that-the-great-empire-of_2333386.jpg) > [Who what am I? My answer: I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/who-what-am-i-my-answer-i-am-everyone-everything-whose-being-in-the/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f01/salman-rushdie-153_affected_who-what-am-i-my-answer-i-am-everyone-ev_2639678.jpg) > [The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woodrow-wilson/the-great-war-that-broke-so-suddenly-upon-the-world-two-years-ago-and/) [Woodrow Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woodrow-wilson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b32/woodrow-wilson-534_affected_the-great-war-that-broke-so-suddenly-upo_2651808.png) > [“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kiran-desai-salman-rushdie-vikram-seth-siddhartha-deb-william-dalrymple-amit-chaudhuri-sunil-g/i-am-the-sum-total-of-everything-that-went-before-me-of-all-i-have-3/) [Kiran Desai Salman Rushdie Vikram Seth Siddhartha Deb William Dalrymple Amit Chaudhuri Sunil G](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kiran-desai-salman-rushdie-vikram-seth-siddhartha-deb-william-dalrymple-amit-chaudhuri-sunil-g/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/962/kiran-desai-salman-rushdie-vik_last-time_i-am-the-sum-total-of-everything-that-we_3055602.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world-affected/#itemlist", "name": "World Affected Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The songs I write and the way I see the world have been affected a certain amount since I became a father.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gregory Porter" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-porter/the-songs-i-write-and-the-way-i-see-the-world-have-been-affected-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a9/gregory-porter-10292_father_the-songs-i-write-and-the-way-i-see-the_192179.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a9/gregory-porter-10292_father_the-songs-i-write-and-the-way-i-see-the_192179.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a9/gregory-porter-10292_father_the-songs-i-write-and-the-way-i-see-the_192179.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The songs I write and the way I see the world have been affected a certain amount since I became a father.” — Gregory Porter", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We live in a small world, and we all are affected by everything that happens everywhere. 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He would too, perhaps, if he was a man of speculation, enter into many reasonings concerning the effects which this disaster might produce upon the commerce of Europe, and the trade and business of the world in general. And when all this fine philosophy was over, when all these humane sentiments had been once fairly expressed, he would pursue his business or his pleasure, take his repose or his diversion, with the same ease and tranquillity, as if no such accident had happened. The most frivolous disaster which could befall himself would occasion a more real disturbance. If he was to lose his little finger to-morrow, he would not sleep to-night; but, provided he never saw them, he will snore with the most profound security over the ruin of a hundred millions of his brethren, and the destruction of that immense multitude seems plainly an object less interesting to him, than this paltry misfortune of his own. To prevent, therefore, this paltry misfortune to himself, would a man of humanity be willing to sacrifice the lives of a hundred millions of his brethren, provided he had never seen them? Human nature startles with horror at the thought, and the world, in its greatest depravity and corruption, never produced such a villain as could be capable of entertaining it. But what makes this difference? When our passive feelings are almost always so sordid and so selfish, how comes it that our active principles should often be so generous and so noble? When we are always so much more deeply affected by whatever concerns ourselves, than by whatever concerns other men; what is it which prompts the generous, upon all occasions, and the mean upon many, to sacrifice their own interests to the greater interests of others? It is not the soft power of humanity, it is not that feeble spark of benevolence which Nature has lighted up in the human heart, that is thus capable of counteracting the strongest impulses of self-love. It is a stronger power, a more forcible motive, which exerts itself upon such occasions. It is reason, principle, conscience, the inhabitant of the breast, the man within, the great judge and arbiter of our conduct.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Adam Smith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/let-us-suppose-that-the-great-empire-of-china-with-all-its-myriads-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/020/adam-smith-1040_e-commerce_let-us-suppose-that-the-great-empire-of_2333386.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/020/adam-smith-1040_e-commerce_let-us-suppose-that-the-great-empire-of_2333386.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/020/adam-smith-1040_e-commerce_let-us-suppose-that-the-great-empire-of_2333386.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Let us suppose that the great empire of China, with all its myriads of inhabitants, was suddenly swallowed…” — Adam Smith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Who what am I? My answer: I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’ve gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each ‘I’, every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. 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The obscure fountains from which its stupendous flood has burst we are not interested to search for or explore.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Woodrow Wilson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woodrow-wilson/the-great-war-that-broke-so-suddenly-upon-the-world-two-years-ago-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b32/woodrow-wilson-534_affected_the-great-war-that-broke-so-suddenly-upo_2651808.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b32/woodrow-wilson-534_affected_the-great-war-that-broke-so-suddenly-upo_2651808.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b32/woodrow-wilson-534_affected_the-great-war-that-broke-so-suddenly-upo_2651808.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame…” — Woodrow Wilson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. 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