Save The World Quotes

• You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

  Charles Bukowski

  Change, Romantic, Men

  1967 Tales of Ordinary Madness,'Too Sensitive'.

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• I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will survive—nor will we deserve to.

  Leonard Peltier

  Mistake, Past, Compassion

  Leonard Peltier (2016). “Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance”, p.201, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Life, Change

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.7, Random House

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• We are the last generation with a real opportunity to save the world.

  Laurence Overmire

  Real, Opportunity, Generations

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• It's up to us to save the world for tomorrow: it's up to you and me.

  Jane Goodall

  Up To You, World, Tomorrow

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• I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

  Anne Lamott

  Believe, Parent, Trying

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• With our love, we could save the world.

  George Harrison

  Love, Reality, World

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• If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

  Albert Einstein

  World, Fifty, Defining

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• You can't save the world...save YOUR heart. Be a catalyst & create a life where you are powerful. Rebel. Be happy & allow others happiness.

  Andy Biersack

  Powerful, Heart, Others Happiness

  Twitter post from Jul 30, 2011

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• Recycling isn't going to save the world, but being conscious of it and your surroundings can.

  Lisa Germano

  World, Recycling, Conscious

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You need to get up in the morning and say, 'Boy, I'm going to - in my own stupid way - save the world today.'

  Carol Bellamy

  Morning, Stupid, Boys

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• When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Peace, Nature

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• To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

  Bertrand Russell

  World, Reason, Being True

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.19, Routledge

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• Beauty will save the world

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Beauty, Christian, World

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.382, Vintage

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• If politicians can't do it, I want to do it. We have to do it. Artists, put it in paintings. Poets, put it in poems, novels. That's what we have to do. And I think it's so important to save the world.

  Michael Jackson

  Thinking, Artist, Important

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Jan 20, 2015

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• A moment's truth can and shall make the world beautiful. A moment's peace can and shall save the world. A moment's love can and shall make the world perfect.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Beautiful, Perfect, World

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• We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

  Pema Chodron

  Integrity, Heart, Compassion

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• I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Sea, Political

  Bob Dylan “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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• The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who's on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it's alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Creativity, People, Alive

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.183, Anchor

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• Art Exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Art, Thinking, Sea

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• Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

  David Carson

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Design

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• Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  War, World, Saving

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• However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There's no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference - but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort.

  Isaac Asimov

  Differences, Effort, Trying

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• If we want to save the world, we must have a plan. But no plan will work unless we meditate.

  Dalai Lama

  Meditation, World, Want

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• A large animal needs a large area. If you protect that area, you're also protecting thousands of other plants and animals. You're saving all these species that future generations will want - you're saving the world for your children and your children's children. . . . The destruction of species is final. If you lose a species, you lose the genes, you lose all the potential drugs and potential foods that could be useful to the next generations. The ecosystems will not function as they have.

  George Schaller

  Children, Animal, Ecosystems

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