World Quotes

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The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. — Ruth Benedict
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of… — Ruth Benedict
Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the… — Ruth Benedict
The world doesn't need another clothing company. But it does need a certain funk. — Andre Benjamin
Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. — Arnold Bennett
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. — A. C. Benson
To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts. — Ezra Taft Benson
Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature. — Ezra Taft Benson
Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan. — Ezra Taft Benson
The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to… — Ezra Taft Benson
The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish. — George Benson
There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. — Nikolai Berdyaev
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of… — John Berger
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore… — John Berger
I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both… — John Berger
We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the Two, we should discover a… — Cyrano de Bergerac
'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to amuse myself with… — Cyrano de Bergerac
For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its Sun, which diffuses about it… — Cyrano de Bergerac
All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have… — George Berkeley
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious… — Felix Adler

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