World Quotes - Page 150

The best American is one who considers themselves as a citizen of the world.

I'm not saying we're going to win. I am saying rebellion becomes a way to protect your own dignity. Corporations are, theologically speaking, institutions of death. They commodify everything - the natural world, human beings - that they exploit until exhaustion or collapse. They know no limits.

Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

Imagination is the light by which we can penetrate new worlds of thought and experience.

To know the world, one must construct it

The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.

Music… is a memory bank for finding one’s way about the world.

I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

This is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is.

The local church is the hope of the world.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

Every religion in the world that has destroyed people is based on love

Start with yourself. Only if you change can the world change. We are just taking it a little bit further. Not only do you start with yourself, but always remember others.

Here at the quiet limit of the world.

The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union struggle-are tearing our world to pieces.

And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is.

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

There is a sea of consciousness that is universal, even though we each perceive it from our own shores, an awareness and a world that we all share, that can be experienced by every living being, yet is seldom seen by any.

One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.