World Quotes

I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition.

~ Eve Arnold

Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.

~ Aung San Suu Kyi

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

~ William Shakespeare

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

~ Benjamin Franklin

All the money in the world can't buy you back good health.

~ Reba Mcentire

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

~ Albert Camus

Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.

~ Barack Obama

Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large.

~ Shari Arison

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

~ Molière

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.

~ Bill Bryson

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

~ Christiane Amanpour

When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you know, the things that's out there that ain't good for her. It's a crazy world we live in.

~ Nas

I actually think that the most efficacious way of making a difference is to lead by example, and doing random acts of kindness is setting a very good example of how to behave in the world.

~ Misha Collins

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

~ Dennis Prager

Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

~ Nancy Lopez

This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.

~ Pope Francis

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

~ Aldous Huxley

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.

~ Thornton Wilder

If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.

~ Aaron Paul

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.

~ Mary Astell

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

~ Christopher Columbus

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

~ Harry S Truman

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

~ George Orwell

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

~ C. S. Lewis

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

~ Mao Zedong

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

~ John F. Kennedy

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

~ Wendell Berry

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

~ James K. Polk

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

~ Carter G. Woodson

There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.

~ Robert Ballard

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

~ Thomas Sowell

The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history.

~ Myles Munroe

I'm turned on by guys who are cultured. That'll keep me intrigued. They don't have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

~ Rihanna

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

~ Margaret Thatcher

Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.

~ Hans Haacke

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

~ Karl Popper

We don't see the global citizen as someone with no identity, but rather someone who has confidence and is proud of his culture and history - and... open to the modern world.

~ Moza Bint Nasser