World Quotes - Page 420

Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of the world's major economic powers.

The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.

I go around the world, working with all kinds of people who I love.

The world went mad and used us as an excuse.

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

You’re entering a world of pain.

I will stop the motor of the world.

I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument.

How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. (What’s Wrong with the World)

We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.

When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.

Let's get used to other cultures. Portray the world for what it is and you will find truth.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it

All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

The uneven distribution of wealth in the world is due to the uneven distribution of capitalism.