It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

It’s a funny old world.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Syllables govern the world.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

When I get logical, and I don’t trust my instincts – that’s when I get in trouble.

In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate… The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic… The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don’t invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

I am in the world feeling my way to light ‚amid the encircling gloom.‘

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‚tough this and tough that.‘ Then there is this business about ‚gooey.‘ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

There are some loony people in this world!

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.