World Quotes

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

We need to understand the hierarchy of connections. Ultimately, we must connect to something above ourselves such as God. This can give us the power to spread happiness and joy around the world.

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.

The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.

In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.

The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?