World Today Quotes - Page 5

• I'm tired of being scared, and I know you are too. Not that there isn't alot to be scared of in this world today, between the non-stop headlines about wars and nuclear power plants and terrorists and assasinations and civil unrest and economic uncertainty and political doublespeak and insane weather and an environment that's becoming unhealthier by the day. But a point comes when it's too much to deal with, and thinking about it accomplishes nothing more than sending you to bed with a cold cloth on your head.

  Sylvia Browne

  War, Tired, Thinking

  Sylvia Browne, Lindsay Harrison (2010). “End Of Days: Predictions and prophecies about the end of the world”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• Surely there is not a capitalist or well-informed person in this world today who believes that [World War I] is being fought to make the world safe for democracy. It is being fought to make the world safe for capital.

  Rose Pastor Stokes

  War, Believe, Democracy

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• Understanding what is going on in the world today inspires me in a negative sense because there's so much about it that I don't like - political stupidity, environmental degradation, etc. And that makes me want to change it, to make a difference in the world.

  Theodora Goss

  Differences, Stupidity, Political

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a time machine, have them look at the world today, and see what they think. Imagine Schumpeter, Malthus, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Marx, and more! That would be good fun.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Couple, Fun, Past

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The more country that my music gets, the less it fits into the country world today. It's almost like there needs to be two genres, modern country and... country?

  Kacey Musgraves

  Country, Two, Today

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• First of all, [Buckminster Fuller's] identification of the problems that are all that much more pertinent, all that much more pressing in the world today than in his own lifetime from sustainability in terms of the environment to income inequality.

  Jonathon Keats

  Today, Firsts, Buckminster Fuller

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The condition of the world today is such that most writers feel they cannot truthfully be "comic" about it.

  Dylan Thomas

  Writing, World, Today

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.100, New Directions Publishing

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• Women can succeed in villages all over the world today without relying on heavy machinery or debt. They can take leadership roles in agriculture, eliminating hunger and inequity.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Agriculture, Roles, Debt

  Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. July 23, 2013.

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• Superficial religion consists of merely believing certain truths and doing certain things....such superficial religion is rampant in the world today.

  David Platt

  Believe, World, Today

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• When we think of our world today with all of its interconnectedness and complexities, the scope of gospel renewal includes systems and structures that are far beyond what we might consider day-to-day.

  David Kim

  Thinking, Our World, Might

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• One reason why people find applying the Bible to work so difficult is that the world of Scriptures seems so distant from our modern world today. Many established realities we encounter daily, like non-profit and for-profit corporations, did not exist in the ancient world.

  David Kim

  Reality, People, Encounters

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• In much of the world today there are no more chilling words than "I'm from the United States and I'm here to help you."

  Dale Jamieson

  United States, World, Today

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There are seeds of happiness in every soul. Our mental attitude and dispositions constitute the environment in which these seeds germinate. There is as much need for sunshine in our heart as for sunshine in the world. Today, as perhaps never before, mankind needs encouragement and cheer.

  David O. McKay

  Encouragement, Cheer, Attitude

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• When you are doing one thing - talking on your phone, texting, whatever - you are automatically not doing something else. What is the greatest scarcity in the world today? It's not oil. It's time. Time is precious. Don't throw it away.

  Martin Cooper

  Phones, Talking, Oil

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• For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book has been brought to bear against that book to stamp it out of the world, but it has a mightier hold on the world today than ever before. If that were man's book it would have been annihilated and forgotten hundreds of years ago.

  R. A. Torrey

  Philosophy, Book, Men

  Charles Leach, R. A. Torrey “Our Bible: How We Got It and Ten Reasons Why I Believe the Bible is the Word of God”, Moody Publishers

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• The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long rendered obsolete.

  Jacque Fresco

  Long, People, Insane

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• We need to give Christ a chance to make use of us, to be His word and His work, to share His food and His clothing in the world today. If we do not radiate the light of Christ around us, the sense of the darkness that prevails in the world will increase.

  Mother Teresa

  Light, Giving, Darkness

  Mother Teresa (1997). “No Greater Love”

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• Given the total income and wealth available in the world today, we could easily overcome poverty, which would require raising the share of the bottom half from three to roughly five percent. Unfortunately, the trend is going in the opposite direction.

  Thomas Pogge

  Opposites, Overcoming, Income

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• All over the world today people have a very strong desire to find a sense of identity, and at the same time that's coupled with the rise of absolutely absurd wars that relate to ethnic identity. Perhaps there is something deeply ingrained in people that relates to a sense of belonging, and without that, identity doesn't seem as real as it should.

  Jaron Lanier

  Strong, Real, War

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Capitalism is, in Mao's language, the main contradiction in the world today and so our efforts have to be focused on ending this system and making a new one.

  Michael Yates

  Effort, World, Today

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Cage the People, Free the Money. The only thing that is allowed to move freely - unimpeded - around the world today is money... capital.

  Arundhati Roy

  Moving, People, Today

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Many people think that we have no shared value system in the world today but we actually do.

  Mary Robinson

  Thinking, People, World

  Source: www.who.int

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• The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.

  Maya Angelou

  Ignorance, Roots, World

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• This is a complicated time to govern in the world today because of so much going on and it's coming at us at such an unprecedented rate.

  Chuck Hagel

  World, Today, Complicated

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is dominating humankind. I cannot not remember that there were other times, of course [the Second World War]. I never compare.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Stupid, Arrogant

  Source: www.npr.org

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