World Quotes
57925 World quotes by 17139 unique authors
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No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best…
— Walter Lippmann
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James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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Science is not the enemy of humanity but one of the deepest expressions of the human desire to realize that vision of infinite knowledge. Science…
— Heinz Pagels
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Women have to work much harder to make it in this world. It really pisses me off that women don't get the same opportunities as…
— Beyonce Knowles
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I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down…
— Beyonce Knowles
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One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds…
— Janelle Monae
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When I die, bury me on my stomach and let the world kiss my ass.
— LL Cool J
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I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.
— Tony Bennett
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There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.
— Abba Hillel Silver
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Don't be a salary slave! If you are going to do anything in this world, you must start before you are forty, before your period…
— Robert Cochrane
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Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole…
— Freeman Patterson
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We need artists to help us come together and share our voices and build community around powerful issues concerning our roles in the world and…
— Unknown Author
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In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of acquiring riches, there…
— Unknown Author
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The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his…
— Paul Strand
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The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is…
— Paul Kurtz
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Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see…
— Hu Jintao
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[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own merits or to…
— Morris Kline
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I tell you one thing. If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn…
— Sarada Devi
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Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of…
— Vilayat Inayat Khan
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The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter…
— Henry Knox Sherrill
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Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will bring nothing but…
— Octave Chanute
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We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!'Let's fight like hell and stop this…
— Donald Trump
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In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there;…
— Colin Gunton
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So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected, let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!
— Russell Conwell
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