Quotes
Quotes about World
If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what has worked with what sounded good. In area after area- crime, education, housing, race relations- the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.
I wonder how many of the people who profess to believe in the leveling ideas of collectivism and egalitarianism really just believe that they themselves are good for nothing. I mean, how many leftists are animated by a quite reasonable self-loathing? In their hearts they know that they are not going to become scholars or inventors or industrialists or even ordinary good kind people. So they need a way to achieve that smugness for which the left is so justifiably famous. They need a way to achieve self-esteem without merit. Well, there is politics. In an egalitarian world everything will be controlled by politics, and politics requires no merit.
What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the worldâit's the American way of looking at things.
What doth it profit a man if he gains the who world and loses his own soul?
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.
The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city ... Gas-filled, noisy and hazardous, our streets have become the most inhumane landscape in the world.
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman--and each nation--must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.
Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.
The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.
Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough, I can single handed move the world.
To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.
Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.
The White House is the finest prison in the world.
O world, how apt the poor are to be proud.
He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing.
That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me. . . . . Locks, bars, and solitude together met, Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret.
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.
