World Quotes 266

Speech in the House of Commons (1865-05-01)

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.

John Cleese

Age, World, People, Fantasy

It is an amiable illusion, which the shape of our planet prompts, that every man is at the top of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People, World, Illusion

At this point of his effort man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.

Albert Camus

Man, Existence, World

Whatever has value in our world now does not have value in itself, according to its nature � nature is always value-less, but has been given value at some time, as a present � and it was we who gave and bestowed it.

Friedrich Nietzsche The Gay Science

Value, World, Nature

And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.

The Bible

John, Jesus-christ, World, Book

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray

World, Talking

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw Maxims for Revolutionists

Man, People, World, Progress

As scientists, we understand the dangers of nuclear weapons and their devastating effects, and we are learning how human activities and technologies are affecting climate systems in ways that may forever change life on Earth. As citizens of the world, we have a duty to alert the public to the unnecessary risks that we live with every day, and to the perils we foresee if governments and societies do not take action now to render nuclear weapons obsolete and to prevent further climate change...There�s a realization that we are changing our climate for the worse. That would have catastrophic effects. Although the threat is not as dire as that of nuclear weapons right now, in the long term we are looking at a serious threat.

Stephen Hawking

At a press conference for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (2007-01-17)

Scientist, Nuclear-weapon, Danger, World

General disarmament being for the present entirely out of question, a proportionate reduction might be recommended. The safety of any country and of the world's commerce depending not on the absolute, but relative amount of war material, this would be evidently the first reasonable step to take towards universal economy and peace.

Nikola Tesla A means for furthering Peace

Peace, Economy, World

It continually manifests an ardent desire to refashion the world which presents itself to waking man, so that it will be as colorful, irregular, lacking in results and coherence, charming, and eternally new as the world of dreams.

Friedrich Nietzsche On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

World, Dream

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

Francis Bacon Essays

Stranger, Citizen, World

What I am condemning is that one power, with a president [George W. Bush] who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust.

Nelson Mandela

George-w-bush, World

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Benjamin Disraeli Lothair

Democracy, Politician, World

Universal Peace, assuming it to be in the fullest sense realizable, might not require eons for its accomplishment, however probable this may appear, judging from the imperceptibly slow growth of all great reformatory ideas of the past.

Nikola Tesla A means for furthering Peace

Peace, Past, Idea, World

How many rockstars does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Just one. Just hold it in place and let the whole world revolve around you.

David Roth

World

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

Tragedy, World

The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.

Kedar Joshi

World, Contradiction, Universe, Paradox

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