Our World Quotes - Page 19

• Certainly, Gandhi is not inferior to Christ in goodness and sanctity, and he surpasses him in touching humility. Gandhi is the prophet of hope in this age of pessimism and disillusionment. He is a promise of sanity in the madness induced by our world's heedless drinking at the fount of war.

  Sudhir Kakar

  War, Drinking, Humility

  Sudhir Kakar (2008). “The Seeker: A Novel”, p.76, Shambhala Publications

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• The Question is not how much are you going to accomplish? Or can you show some results? But are you in love with Jesus? In our world of brokeness and despair, there is an enormous need for men and women who know the heart of God; a heart that forgives, cares, reaches out and wants to heal.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Heart, Men

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• It's our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others. That's what's essential. That's what will always make the biggest difference in our world.

  Fred Rogers

  Dream, Differences, Essentials

  Commencement Address at Middlebury College, May 2001.

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• Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Pain, Idols, Greed

  Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.26, CUA Press

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• In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world civilization: the primacy of production, the continual growth of the power of the State and the formation of the National State, the autonomous development of technics, etc. These, among others - far more than the ownership of the means of production or any totalitarian doctrine - are the constitutive elements of the modern world. So long as these elements continue to be taken for granted, the world is standing still.

  Jacques Ellul

  Taken, Mean, Civilization

  "The Presence of the Kingdom" by Jacques Ellul, translated by Olive Wyon, Seabury paperback, (p. 33), 1967.

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• While notable advances in certain parts of the world in woman's rights have occured in the last hundred years, the centuries of conditioning and the mentality that views women as inferior still prevade our world today.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Rights, Views

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• Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

  Jay Samit

  People, World, Realizing

  Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt Yourself”, p.198, Pan Macmillan

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• As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it...Children trust the power of words.

  Julia Cameron

  Children, Names, Giving

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• He's a tremendous breath of fresh air. The things he [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport. I'm so, so thrilled that he is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Air, America

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, People, Risk

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.

  Alex Haley

  Wisdom, Exercise, Fate

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• As we each express our natural genius, we all elevate our world.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Genius, Natural

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from May 26, 2011

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• Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in our world.

  Tom Hanks

  Differences, Choices, Jaw Dropping

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• I think the fans, if you want to actually learn about us, I think you have to go way more intricate than just what you see on TV, because that's whatever they want to report. But it's just so much going on, and when you talk about being in our world you have to understand we're individuals too. We're not just athletes. No, we're fathers, we're sons. So when you put us through a job shortage you take away everything that we built.

  Ray Lewis

  Jobs, Father, Athlete

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is a sad tendency in our world today for persons to cut one another down. Did you ever realize that it does not take very much in the way of brainpower to make remarks that may wound another? Try the opposite of that. Try handing out compliments.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Cutting, Opposites, Trying

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• Remember, once more how our world should be. And please, don't forget, please, please don't forget.

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Remember, Forget, Should

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• From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.

  Jose Saramago

  Garbage Disposal, Jam, Literature

  Jose Saramago's intervention in the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, February 1992.

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• Ghosts are a metaphor for memory and remembrance and metaphorically connect our world to the world we cannot know about.

  Leslie What

  Memories, Remembrance, Ghost

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• What is important - what I consider success - is that we make a contribution to our world.

  Benjamin Carson

  Success, Important, Contribution

  "Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence". Book by Ben Carson and Cecil Murphey, 1996.

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• What is happening to our world is almost too colossal for human comprehension to contain...To contemplate its girth and its circumference, to attempt to define it, to try and fight it all at once, is impossible. The only way to combat it is by fighting specific wars in specific ways.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Fighting, Trying

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• These two opposed forms of social organization, the modern state and the market, have evolved together through recent centuries, and their mutual interactions have become increasingly crucial to the character and dynamics of international relations in our world.

  Robert Gilpin

  Character, Organization, Two

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.4, Princeton University Press

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• Reason has never really directed social reality, but now reason has been so thoroughly purged of any specific trend or preference that it has finally renounced even the task of passing judgment on man's actions and way of life. Reason has turned them over for ultimate sanction to the conflicting interests to which our world actually seems abandoned.

  Max Horkheimer

  Reality, Men, Tasks

  Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.5, A&C Black

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• I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act!

  Imre Kertész

  Order, Sick, Atrocities

  "Detective Story". Book by Imre Kertész, 2008.

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• Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Infinite, Preference, Function

  "The Ketchup Conundrum" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. September 6, 2004.

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• The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.

  Adam Schiff

  War, Cold, Danger

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