World Quotes - Page 768

Yugoslavia served as a reminder that the lessons of World War Two were only partially learned. There's a great line someone wrote in the middle of the 1990s, at the time when Clinton was agonizing about whether or not to go into Bosnia: "Everyone says, 'Never again. Never again.' But all they really mean is never again will Germans kill Jews in the streets of Warsaw".

Satisfying ever-growing energy demand in a sustainable way has become the world's biggest challenge.

We need the world to put a price on carbon.

We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.

We're all brought up in a world that isn't the best place for us to be in once in a while. There are so many problems and we try to overcome them all.

At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.

I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.

I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.

If being human requires freedom, then enslavement to the cares of this world is dehumanizing.

I still think the world is better off and safer without Saddam Hussein.

When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place.

The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.

There will be no peace in our world without an understanding of the place of religion within it.

There have been the most terrible, shocking events taking place in the United States of America within the last hour or so... I am afraid we can only imagine the terror and the carnage there and the many, many innocent people who will have lost their lives... It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life and we, the democracies of this world, are going to have to come together to fight it together and eradicate this evil completely from our world.

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.

After the terrible events of last week, there is still the shock and disbelief; there is anger; there is fear; but there is also, throughout the world, a profound sense of solidarity; there is courage; there is a surging of the human spirit.

Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths

In respect of Indonesia, I am determined to be the best possible friend of Indonesia that I can be, consistent with my overriding duty to protect our country. We would never do anything that was damaging to Indonesia, because we want Indonesia to flourish. We want Indonesia to take its rightful place as one of the really important countries of the world, as it will, sooner or later.

We will act to build a better world. We always have, we always will. We will act to lend a helping hand, not just here but wherever we humanly can.

It seems that, notwithstanding the dramatic increases in manmade CO2 emissions over the last decade, the world's warming has stopped.

I thought the whole world was like Lorain.

The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we should have nothing to do with it.

It's strange, because it seems that society is kind of promoting or nurturing this kind of ostracized existence. People are kind of very much in their own little worlds.

Millions of filmmakers would love to be in my position right now. If you are honest it makes the world a better place. I created the room with my passion and after all these years it finally worked out.