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.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

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.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

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

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

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

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

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.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

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

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

It’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

It’s a funny old world.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

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.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

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.

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

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

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

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it’s coming, a common response is, ‚Oh no! Not again!‘

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

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

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.

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.

A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: ‚If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?‘

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

The most important question in the world is, ‚Why is the child crying?‘

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.