You’ve seen the world, and all you’ve seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said and heard is nothing. You’ve sprinted everywhere between here and the horizon; it is nothing. And all the possessions you’ve treasured up at home are nothing. Omar Khayyam, Quatrains – Ballades
Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things. J R R Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them. J R R Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world. Gustave Flaubert
You must be the change you want to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
The hope of a secure and liveable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. Martin Luther King junior
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pike
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. Muhammad Ali
This is our home … We’ve made a few changes. We’re redesigning our world. Supersized Earth I, BBC 2012
5Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate: only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers, don’t fight for slavery, fight for liberty! You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure! Then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite! Let us fight for a new world, a decent world. Charles Chaplin
Insanity – a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. R D Laing
The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world. George Eliot
It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world. Dolly Parton
What transforms this world is – knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed. Yukio Mashima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela
In the occult science of numerology the number thirty-three represents the ultimate attainment of consciousness. Mount Hermon is located at the latitude of 33 degrees north. Tracing the 33rd degree parallel to the exact opposite side of the globe takes you to the site of the most famous UFO encounter in modern history: Roswell, New Mexico, USA. Ancient Aliens s2e13: Angels and Aliens, History 2010
It isn’t enough to bring up children happy and secure; you’ve got to have a decent world for them. Benjamin Spock
The world is weary of the past,
Oh, might it die or rest at last! Percy Bysshe Shelley, Hellas l182
I want what’s coming to me: the world, Chico, and everything in it. Scarface 1983 ***** starring Al Pacino & Michelle Pfeiffer & Steven Bauer & Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio & Robert Loggia & Miria Colon & F Murray Abraham et al, director Brian de Palma
All I have in this world is my balls and my word. ibid. Tony to Sosa
The World Is Yours. ibid. message on hot-air balloon
Go on, do me in, ya bastard cowards. I don’t want to live anyway. Not in a stinking world like this. It’s a stinking world because there’s no law and order any more. It’s a stinking world because it lets the young get onto the old. A Clockwork Orange 1971 starring Malcolm McDowell & Patrick Magee & Michael Bates & Warren Clarke & John Clive & Adrienne Corri & Carl Duering & Paul Farrell & Clive Francis & Michael Gover et al, director Stanley Kubrick, Tramp to Alex et al
The world breaks everyone. Croupier 1998 starring Clive Owen & Alex Kingston & Gina McKee & Kate Hardie & Nicholas Ball & Alexander Morton & Nick Reding & Paul Reynolds & Barnaby Kay, director Mike Hodges
The World Is Yours. Cooks Tours. Scarface 1932 aka The Shame of the Nation starring Paul Muni & George Raft & Ann Dvorak & Karen Morley & Osgood Perkins & C Henry Gordon & Vince Barnett & Boris Karloff & Purnell Pratt & Tully Marshall et al, director Howard Hughes, neon sign on roof
I can see a better world. A greater world. The Sound of Fury 1950 starring starring Frank Lovejoy & Lloyd Bridges & Kathleen Ryan & Richard Carlson & Katherine Locke & Adale Jergens & Art Smith et al, director Cyril Endfield, opening scene
The world is general seems to be in a complete mess. Man From Tangier 1957 starring Robert Hutton & Lisa Gastoni & Martin Benson & Leonard Sachs & Derek Sydney & Robert Shaw & Robert Raglan & Jack Allen et al, director Lance Comfort, her to him
I believe in an orderly world. A far cry from the chaos we find ourselves in today. We are building a new future here. A new beginning for mankind. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s4e10: Our Man Bashir, Sisko in character
We must seek a world of peace – a world in which peoples dwell together in mutual respect and work together in mutual regard – a world where peace is not a mere interlude between wars, but an incentive to the creative energies of humanity. We will not find such a peace today, or even tomorrow. The obstacles to hope are large and menacing. Yet the goal of a peaceful world – today and tomorrow – must shape our decisions and inspire our purposes. So we are all idealists. We are all visionaries. Let it not be said of this Atlantic generation that we left ideals and visions to the past, nor purpose and determination to our adversaries. We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much, to disdain the future now. John F Kennedy, June 1963
It’s such a shallow world I am involved with and I can’t take it no more. Mike Tyson
I see no place for myself in this world. Napoleon Bonaparte
The world is much better than many of you think. Professor Hans Rosling, Don't Panic – The Truth About Population, BBC 2013
Look at the world today. Is there anything more pitiful? What madness there is. What blindness. What an intelligent leadership. A scurrying mass of bewildered humanity crashing headlong against each other. A peril by an orgy of greed and brutality. The time must come, my friend, when this orgy will spend itself. When brutality and the lust for power must perish by its own sword. Lost Horizon 1937 ***** starring Ronald Colman & Jane Wyatt & H B Warner & Sam Jaffe & John Howard & Edward Everett Horton & Thomas Mitchell & Margo & Isabel Jewell & David Clyde & David Torrence et al, director Frank Capra, High Lama to Conway
The First World War made me think it just won’t do to live in an ivory tower. This world is too bad – you must notice it. Bertrand Russell
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. John 1:10
For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. I Timothy 6:7
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. I John 2:2&15-17
World order has changed under the impact of the policies of neoliberal globalization of the world economy of the past generation and by today a corporate ownership of the world’s wealth. Noam Chomsky, lecture Vortrag October 2016, ‘What Principles and Values Rule the World?’ Youtube 48.24
Perhaps it’s a sign of my age, perhaps something else, but I cannot help thinking more and more about what kind of a world we’re leaving for our children and our grandchildren. And it’s not very pretty, not one that should inspire pride. Noam Chomsky, The Emerging World Order, Youtube July 2017 1.00.06
As for the threat of nuclear war – it’s on the front pages daily but in a way that would seem outlandish to an independent observer. ibid.
A contempt for democracy among Western elite opinion. ibid.
There are two rogue states – the United States and Israel. ibid.
The Pentagon has identified cyber-warfare as a serious military attack that justifies our military response … Israel has an enormous military armoury. ibid.