World Quotes - Page 836

Why should Americans care about the Nazi back story in World War II? If you don't have the Nazi back story in World War II, World War II is simply not comprehensible.

The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.

Plotinus thought that the entire world has a single soul. He also thought that each animal and plant and of course human, has an individual soul.

The world around you is some kind of distraction at best, and evil at worst, and you should be turning away from it.

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

Turning something into low resolution data does seem to make it worth less in the modern world.

I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.

I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.

If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.

The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

It's like coming back to the womb. I'm coming back to my mum and it's wonderful to see her. It's the best space in the world. If it wasn't for this place I don't know what I'd have done with my life.

You've got to look at yourself as what I call a lifer. You're going to be out there playing music your whole life, in a live situation. That's what sends me out into the world, and as I see this beautiful world, I want to do more and contribute more, and stay in a position to do more and contribute more.

I prefer the "tackiest" person in the world to the stylish person who has no tact.

O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb

Necessity, thou mother of the world!

Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.

I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it.

I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.

I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.

Opening to the world begins to benefit ourselves and others simultaneously. The more we relate with others, the more quickly we discover where we're blocked.

Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can’t simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment. We feel that someone else knows what is going on, but that there is something missing in us, and therefore something is lacking in our world.

The acknowledgment of powerlessness does empower. We humans are powerless over a whole host of factors and conditions in the world, and mostly we're not bothered by these.

The world we all share is the same in important respects. But in some deep ways, the lived world and its meanings are radically different.

The U.S. will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system. The world will become multi-polar.

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.