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World Quotes - Page 7

We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force.

Mary McLeod Bethune, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith (2001). “Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents”, p.60, Indiana University Press

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1988). “Bulletin Du Centre International D'éducation Sri Aurobindo”

With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.

Amedeo Modigliani, José María Faerna (1997). “Modigliani”, Harry N. Abrams

We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.

Statement in 1937. "Great Powers and Outlaw States: Unequal Sovereigns in the International Legal Order" by Gerry J. Simpson, p. 291, 2004.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 145