Quotes
Quotes about World
If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.
All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
Look upon the world as your enemy because only then the gifts it gives will give you immense pleasure.
For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
The job of the poet is to render the world--to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
What a crazy world we live in! Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal misbehaviors using guns as a medical problem! Beam me up, Scotty. Ain't no intelligent life down here.
The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
The political world is stimulating. It's the most interesting thing you can do. It beats following the dollar.
If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.
We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the populationâthe intelligent ones or the fools? I think we can agree it's the fools, no matter where you go in this world, it's the fools that form the overwhelming majority.
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
We vote too much. We deliberate too little. We have brought within the scope of the federal jurisdiction a vast number of subjects that do not belong here, but are nevertheless here. What we need to do is to stop passing laws. We have enough laws now to govern the world for the next ten thousand years.
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.
