World Quotes

What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism.

Don't discount yourself, no matter what you're doing. Everyone has a unique perspective that they can bring to the world.

One thing I have reflected on is that when I started Facebook, the mission of connecting the world was not controversial. It was kind of as if it was a default assumption that people had - every year the world got more connected - and that seems like the direction that things were heading in.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

We Communists must be able to integrate ourselves with the masses in all things. If our Party members spend their whole lives sitting indoors and never go out to face the world and brave the storm, what good will they be to the Chinese people? None at all, and we do not need such people as Party members. We Communists ought to face the world and brave the storm the great world of mass struggle and the mighty storm of mass struggle.

I am interested in this world, in this life, not in some other world or future life.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

The light that shone in this country [Gandhi] was no ordinary light... and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it... For that light represented the living truth.

Science and technology have freed humanity from many burdens and given us this new perspective and great power. This power can be used for the good of all. If wisdom governs our actions; but if the world is mad or foolish, it can destroy itself just when great advances and triumphs are almost without its grasp.

The world of today has achieved much, but for all its declared love for humanity, it has based itself far more on hatred and violence than on the virtues that make one human. War is the negation of truth and humanity. War may be unavoidable sometimes, but its progeny are terrible to contemplate. Not mere killing, for man must die, but the deliberate and persistent propagation of hatred and falsehood, which gradually become the normal habits of the people.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.