World Quotes

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.

~ Jinato Hu

All humans make mistakes. But there is no room or allowance in the fevered world of conspiracy theorists for mistakes, human errors, anomalies, or plain incompetence, though the latter, from the highest levels on down, is endemic to our society.

~ Vincent Bugliosi

Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible.

~ Cecil Rhodes

I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combinations of talents in this world, our society would be transformed overnight.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

~ Art Buchwald

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual arts - decoration of surfaces and bodies - appears to be a human universal.

~ Steven Pinker

I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.

~ Roy Lichtenstein

I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.

~ Neil Strauss

Be curious enough to keep an open mind to what's happening around you in society. You can look at yourself and the world at the same time.

~ Jochen Zeitz

Islam cannot have a significant presence in Australia if we are to live in an open, secular, and cohesive society. We have seen the destruction it is causing around the world.

~ Pauline Hanson

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

~ Magdi Yacoub

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

~ Daniel Webster

It is not a fragrant world.

~ Raymond Chandler

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

~ Rutherford B. Hayes

As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.

~ David Puttnam

We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities.

~ Rebecca Solnit

Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother and grandmother, the unseen and invisible world. Another window was brought from my father's side, those classic and Western books.

~ Cai Guo-Qiang

When the Soviet Union fell, optimistic scholars believed the world had shifted inexorably in the direction of free markets and liberal democracy. Instead, the West gradually embraced bigger government and weaker social bonds, creating a fragmented society in which the only thing we all belong to, as President Barack Obama puts it, is the state.

~ Ben Shapiro

Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.

~ Alison Goldfrapp

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

~ Ibrahim Babangida

However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.

~ Kenzaburō Ōe

In the end, does it really matter if newspapers physically disappear? Probably not: the world is always changing. But does it matter if organisations independent enough and rich enough to employ journalists to do their job disappear? Yes, that matters hugely; it affects the whole of life and society.

~ Andrew Marr

It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.

~ Baldwin Spencer

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

~ Peter Medawar

We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons. When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons. A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It's legal to follow me. It's legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can't call the police or ask them to leave.

~ Lady Gaga

Because it started as an offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq, ISIL has long been subject to U.N. sanctions, and all countries have a legal obligation to freeze its assets and prohibit its business dealings. But countries around the world need to do more to make these sanctions work.

~ Samantha Power

Sure, our legal system has its flaws, but it is the best legal system in the world.

~ Kimberly Guilfoyle

In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.

~ Julian Assange

I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.

~ Alice Mcdermott

Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.

~ José Saramago

I admit my view of the world is colored by my legal and business experiences at Liberty.

~ Jerry Falwell

Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.

~ Feisal Abdul Rauf

I really am not going to get involved in a discussion about the legal position of the Iraq war. I am not the person to do that because I am not sufficiently impartial as a lawyer about this, because it's a matter that is of interest to the person that I am closest to in the world.

~ Cherie Blair

Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.

~ Jack Kingston

As a factual matter, as in countries all over the world, technology and business practices have been running faster than legal responses and developments.

~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations.

~ Jim Sensenbrenner

So much business is based on the belief that we should do whatever we can within legal limits to make as much money as we can. Ben & Jerry's was based on values, and we try to operate a business that not just sells ice cream but partners with all our stakeholders - whether that's suppliers or customers - to bring about a more sustainable world.

~ Jerry Greenfield