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World Quotes - Page 117

To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.

To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.

Gary Steiner (2012). “Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship”, p.122, Columbia University Press

Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I may live wholly to and upon the blessed God!

David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.78

Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.

"Keeping It (Un)real". Interview with Neil Gaiman, www.wired.com. July 1, 2005.

I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.

"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Storyteller". Interview with Janell Hobson, msmagazine.com. March 6, 2015.

The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty ... Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.

Anne Frank (2010). “Tales from the Secret Annexe”, Peter Halban

The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Anne Applebaum (2007). “The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation”, Harper Perennial Modern Classics

The most important thing in this world is faith. Without faith you cannot communicate with God.

"Political Correctness Taking Over Illegal Immigration Dialogue; Game Show Based on Profiling; Prodigy Inspired to Paint by Visions of God". "Glenn Beck Program", edition.cnn.com. December 14, 2006.

We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1983). “I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology”, Crossroad Publishing Company

I had no immediate knowledge of the world of Batman at all. I'm quite incubated. I just keep myself to myself and my dog.

"Tom Hardy Talks Following Heath Ledger’s Joker, Bane’s Costume, STAR TREK and More on the Set of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. May 27, 2012.

Who's the world going to revolve around now?

"A Problem Like Matilda". Interview with Michael Schulman, www.newyorker.com. April 1, 2013.