World Quotes

• "The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations."
  By: Henry Giles
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• "Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it."
  By: Jean Genet
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• "A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine."
  By: John Gay
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• "There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other."
  By: Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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• "My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind."
  By: William Lloyd Garrison
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• "Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know."
  By: Mahatma Gandhi
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• "In a gentle way, you can shake the world."
  By: Mahatma Gandhi
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• "I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could."
  By: Mahatma Gandhi
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• "I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world."
  By: Mahatma Gandhi
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• "Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large."
  By: Mahatma Gandhi
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• "As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves."
  By: Mahatma Gandhi
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• "An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
  By: Mahatma Gandhi
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• "Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does."
  By: John Kenneth Galbraith
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• "The moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac divinely subsidized to provoke the world into a rising birth-rate."
  By: Christopher Fry
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• "We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone."
  By: James A. Froude
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• "The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it."
  By: James A. Froude
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