World Quotes

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can’t have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.

Hurt’s a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don’t change facts.

I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.

The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.

In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.