World Quotes

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

The world is not composed of heroes and villains, but of men and women with all the passions that God has given them. The ignorant condemn, but the wise pity.

The world cannot be wrong if in this world there's you.

[Talkies] are spoiling the oldest art in the world - the art of pantomime. They are ruining the great beauty of silence.

Let us fight for a new world.

Mother illuminated to me the kindliest light this world has ever known, which has endowed literature and the theatre with their greatest and richest themes: love, pity and humanity.

My costume helps me to express my conception of the average man, of almost any man, of myself. The derby, too small, is a striving for dignity. The mustache is vanity. The tightly buttoned coat and the stick and his whole manner are a gesture toward gallantry and dash and 'front.' He is chasing folly, and he knows it. He is trying to meet the world bravely, to put up a bluff, and he knows that, too. He knows it so well that he can laugh at himself and pity himself a little.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Think about yourself at least once in your life. Otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.

Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is.

It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create.

Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world.

I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains.

The religious world is but a reflex of the real world.

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.