Adam Gopnik Quotes, People Quotes, World Quotes

If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent. 'Credibility' is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we'll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.

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It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Tree Quotes , World Quotes

A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Men Quotes , World Quotes

I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture. And I'm gonna make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel of an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world.

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It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Half Quotes , World Quotes

He who best knows the world will love it least.

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The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

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As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , World Quotes , Patterns Quotes

The more completely we give of ourselves, the more completely the world gives back to us.

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From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Fall Quotes , World Quotes

The world globes itself in a drop of dew.

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When you have a child, the world has a hostage.

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Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

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Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Contentment Quotes , World Quotes

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Hands Quotes , World Quotes

Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.

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Tags : A. E. Waite Quotes , World Quotes , May Quotes

There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.

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I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

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Doing nothing in the face of a grave threat to the world is not an option.

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Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world's release.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , World Quotes , Pity Quotes