Our World Quotes - Page 7

• Throughout our world the cry of the poor so often goes unheard. The prophets harangued Israel and Judah unceasingly about the powerless and marginalized, the overlooked widows, orphans, and "sojourners in our midst," who are still with us today as single mothers, hungry children, and helpless immigrants, wraiths invisible in our prosperous societies.

  Thomas Cahill

  Mother, Children, Israel

  Thomas Cahill (2010). “The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels”, p.252, Anchor

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• Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.

  Saul Alinsky

  Two, Kind, Social

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• It is no more likely that our world has evolved out of chaos than that a hurricane, blowing through a junk yard, should create a Boeing.

  Fred Hoyle

  Junk, Yards, Boeing

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• If we are to change our world view, images have to change.

  David Hockney

  Views, World View, Ifs

  David Hockney, Paul Joyce (1988). “Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce”, Harmony

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• The first rule for prayer, the most important first step, is not about how to do it, but to just do it; not to perfect and complete it but to begin it. Once the car is moving, it's easy to steer it in the right direction, but it's much harder to start it up when it's stalled. And prayer is stalled in our world.

  Peter Kreeft

  Prayer, Moving, Perfect

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• I myself am still learning how to be me and that's OK. It can take a really long time to become the person you really want to be. Be who you are. It's the greatest gift we can give to ourselves, our community and our world.

  Maria Shriver

  Giving, Long, Community

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Huge imbalance in power has resulted in the alienation, rage, fury, and awful amoral terrorism that has erupted and is erupting at the present time. And in order to counter this, we need to make the compassionate voice of religion and morality a dynamic force in our world.

  Karen Armstrong

  Voice, Order, Imbalance

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism. People look at me sideways now and are like, "With everything going on, the destruction of the environment, these endless wars, this capitalism that has a stranglehold on our culture and our world and you're talking about feminism still?"

  Ani DiFranco

  War, Talking, People

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• To me, the grotesque is like a sonic manifestation of reality. I don't know how you could look out onto our world and see only beauty. And I like beautiful things. I like the aesthetically harmonious. But I am much more attracted to something that is off-kilter. It is a truer reflection of not only nature, but the human spirit - the state of the world. I just think everything feels a little off.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Beautiful, Reflection, Reality

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• Snowden is almost preternaturally prepossessing and self-possessed. I think of a novelist whose dream character just walks into his or her head. It must have been like that with you and Snowden. But what if he'd been a graying guy with the same documents and far less intelligent things to say about them? In other words, how exactly did who he was make your movie and remake our world?

  Laura Poitras

  Dream, Character, Intelligent

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness

  Terence McKenna

  Dmt, Mind Blowing, Consciousness

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• Every moment you are present, there is a little less darkness in our world.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Darkness, Littles, Moments

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• We're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels. And when we begin to realize that we're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels, we find that it is much easier to understand where other people are coming from. All the ones who don't have the same reality tunnel as us do not seem ignorant, or deliberately perverse, or lying, or hypnotized by some mad ideology, they just have a different reality tunnel. And every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our world, if we're willing to listen.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Lying, Reality, Tunnels

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• A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.

  Carl Sagan

  Home, Responsibility, Blue

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 6: "Traveller's Tales", 1990.

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• Support your public library! It is a treasure and a legacy that will provide entertainment, information, a sense of community, and real continuity from one generation to the next, and the next after that. So long as we keep reading, and reading to our children, there will be hope for our shared cultural heritage and the future of our world.

  John Lescroart

  Children, Real, Reading

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• I wanted to be involved with the making of some kind of parallel world. I thought, there's no reason to go to different parts of our world, because you can write them. You can stay home, stay in a little room, and imagine all these worlds. And I wanted to do that. Why did I want to do that, I'm not sure if I can tell.

  Vito Acconci

  Home, Writing, Different

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Why is everything that's good for our bodies, our communities, our world, and our planet called the 'alternative'? That means everything bad for us is the accepted norm.

  Julia Hill

  Mean, Community, Alternatives

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• We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven.

  Plato

  Sight, Air, Sea

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• To speak plainly and truthfully about the state of our world - to say, for instance, that the Bible and the Koran both contain mountains of life-destroying gibberish - is antithetical to tolerance as moderates currently conceive it. But we can no longer afford the luxury of such political correctness. We must finally recognize the price we are paying to maintain the iconography of our ignorance.

  Sam Harris

  Ignorance, Luxury, Political

  "The End of Faith". Book by Sam Harris (pages 22-23), 2004.

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• The cycle of God, the good, is broken by a single act of negativity. The cycle of negativity is stopped by choosing the good -- not just once, but again and again until it is goodness that prevails in your life and in our world altogether.

  John Morton

  Broken, Negativity, Goodness

  John Morton (2000). “The Blessings Already Are”, p.69, Mandeville Press

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• We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.

  Paul Goodman

  Men, Affair, Enough

  Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 153), 1956.

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• For the first time, we saw our world, not as a solid, immovable, kind of indestructible place, but as a very small, fragile-looking world just hanging against the blackness of space.

  Brian Cox

  Motivation, Inspiration, Space

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• It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.

  Sam Harris

  Christian, Pouring, Portal

  "On Non-Violent Islamic Extremism (1/3)" by Elham Manea, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 9, 2014.

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• Art is a path on which we honour our world.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Path, Honour

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• Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.

  Ed Miliband

  Country, Taken, Optimistic

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