World Quotes

• "Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else."
  By: Simone Weil
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• "The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."
  By: Daniel Webster
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• "Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say ''In spite of all!'' has the calling for politics."
  By: Max Weber
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• "'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world."
  By: George Washington
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• "Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world."
  By: Earl Warren
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• "Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world."
  By: Sir Hugh Walpole
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• "This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."
  By: Horace Walpole
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• "Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."
  By: Horace Walpole
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• "Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school."
  By: Horace Walpole
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• "The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other."
  By: Diana Princess of Wales
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• "To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered."
  By: Voltaire French writer and philosopher (ps. of François Marie Arouet) (1694-1778)
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• "Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them."
  By: Voltaire French writer and philosopher (ps. of François Marie Arouet) (1694-1778)
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• "As both capitalist and communist states - not to mention the technological world - have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our."
  By: Stephen Vizinczey
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• "The Britons are quite separated from all the world."
  By: Virgil
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• "The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent."
  By: Gore Vidal
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• "Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."
  By: Gore Vidal
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