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World Quotes - Page 121

Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask their critics what is so practical about war.

"United Nations, National Sovereignty and the Future of the World". Speech upon receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award, the UN Delegates Dining Room, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. October 19, 1999.

We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.

"Why Tim Cook Doesn't Care About 'The Bloody ROI'" by Steve Denning, www.forbes.com. March 7, 2014.

Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.

Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False”, p.39, Oxford University Press

This is a software-powered world.

"Satya Nadella, New CEO of Microsoft Corp.: 8 Things You Need to Know" by Susanna Kim, abcnews.go.com. February 4, 2014.

I was born to be champion of the world

"Duran, Whitaker Head Boxing Hall of Fame" By William Kates, www.foxnews.com. December 7, 2006.

To all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity!

Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.131, SPCK

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.

"Complete Phil Ochs: Chords of Fame". Book edited by Tom Nolan and Mark Eliot, 1978.

The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.

"Dictionary of South African Quotations" by Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books, (p. 90), 1994.