World Quotes - page 89

We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced - and remain convinced now - that, after Hitler, Truman was the greatest murderer in the world. (Martin Niemöller)
People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next, I guess if we made it to heaven, we'd have to help make it thunder. View quote
Georg Büchner
Now I've been crying lately, Thinking about the world as it is. Why must we go on hating? Why can't we live in bliss? View quote
Cat Stevens
Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again. View quote
Cat Stevens
It seems to be the easiest thing in the world these days to make scurrilous accusations against Muslims, and in my case it directly impacts on my relief work and damages my reputation as an artist. The harm done is often difficult to repair. View quote
Cat Stevens
Sun is the reason And the world it will bloom ‘Cause sun lights the sky And the sun lights the moon. View quote
Cat Stevens
Oh I can't keep it in; I can't keep it in, I've gotta let it out I've got to show the world; world's got to see, See all the love; love that's in me. View quote
Cat Stevens
Open your eyes at last and see... now I will open the book of the world for you, there are no words in it, just pictures. View quote
Oskar Kokoschka
The immaterial Blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April [1958, together with Jean Tinguely ] had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world of tangible reality; I was an extreme element of society who lived in space and who had no means of coming back to earth. Jean Tinguely saw me in space and signaled to me in speed to show me the last machine to take to return to the ephemerality of material life. View quote
Yves Klein
The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds. View quote
Yves Klein
Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate. (Odilon Redon)
Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary. View quote
Viktor Frankl
You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery. View quote
Norman Borlaug
I now say that the world has the technology – either available or well advanced in the research pipeline – to feed on a sustainable basis a population of 10 billion people. The more pertinent question today is whether farmers and ranchers will be permitted to use this new technology? While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions, and pay more for food produced by the so-called "organic” methods, the one billion chronically undernourished people of the low income, food-deficit nations cannot. View quote
Norman Borlaug
Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. View quote
Norman Borlaug
Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry. View quote
Norman Borlaug
The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world. View quote
Norman Borlaug
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind. View quote
Norman Borlaug
Some of the environmental lobbyists of the western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They have never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for fifty years, they would be crying out for tractors, and fertilizer, and irrigation canals, and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things. View quote
Norman Borlaug
We live in a world we ourselves create. View quote
Johann Gottfried Herder
You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree - the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men. (Chinua Achebe)
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience. View quote
Chinua Achebe
We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like – the anti-war government nig– uh, the – America was a source for division around the world, that what we were doing was wrong. View quote
Rick Santorum
There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced. View quote
George F. Kennan
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will - but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world - faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity. View quote
George F. Kennan