World Quotes

My feeling about seeing the world is that it's going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.

~ Ewan Mcgregor

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

~ Marian Wright Edelman

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

~ Saul Alinsky

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.

~ Ben Edwards

You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying.

~ Kevin Johnson

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

~ Robert Mugabe

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

~ John Locke

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

~ Tom Stoppard

My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

~ Mark Zuckerberg

I want to inspire people to change the world. That's something that I feel that I'm meant to do here... really going to change the world. I asked God to make me immortal so I can do it.

~ Bryson Tiller

Is there climate change? I live in the shadow of some of the greatest climate change the world has ever seen. It's called the Rocky Mountains. When the glaciers went back.

~ Scott Tipton

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

~ John Ashcroft

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

~ Ferdinand Marcos

We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth.

~ Michael K. Powell

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

~ Robert Fulghum

Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don't deny that.

~ Steve Wozniak

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

~ Armistead Maupin

It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.

~ Jacque Fresco

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

~ Bill Lee

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.

~ Michael Phelps

Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.

~ George Pataki

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn't have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it.

~ Tom Clancy

The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.

~ Todd Gitlin

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

~ Lajos Kossuth

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

All I want to do is change the world.

~ W. Clement Stone

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

~ Hugh Mackay

Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

~ William C. Bryant

The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.

~ James G. Frazer

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

~ John Doolittle

Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.

~ Barbara Bush

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

~ Carl T. Rowan

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

~ Hermann Hesse

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

~ Jeff Bezos

Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore soured and disappointed beings. This is probably not true of any suffragist, and it is most certainly not true of me. My home life and relations have been as nearly ideal as possible in this imperfect world.

~ Emmeline Pankhurst

You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.

~ Colm Tóibín

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

~ Christopher Columbus

And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, you know, when you step off of an airplane or when you hear the national anthem play, you know, it's one of the greatest feelings in the world because you know that there are people at home who are supporting you and watching you.

~ Michael Phelps

We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.

~ Leo Szilard