“The world is divided into three kinds of people: A very small group that makes things happen; a somewhat larger group that watches things happen; and a great multitude that never knows what has happened.” PeopleKnowsWorldKindHappensThreeWatchesHappenedGroupsThings HappenDividedMultitudesSmall GroupsMake Things Happen Author:Nicholas Murray Butler
“America is the best half-educated country in the world.” WorldCountryAmericaEducationHalfEducated Author:Nicholas Murray Butler
“I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.” PeopleWorldHappensThreeClassWatchesSocietyAchievementHappeningsMajorityNotionThings HappenDividesOverwhelmingMake Things Happen Author:Nicholas Murray Butler
“The more that one studies the history of the building of the American nation, the clearer it becomes that it may be justly described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the world problems of tomorrow.” WorldMayProblemAmericaNationsUnderstandingBuildingTomorrowHistoricalExperimentsLaboratory Author:Nicholas Murray Butler
“The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and as completely as if it had been wiped out by a gigantic flood, by a great tempest, or by a volcanic eruption. The old world order died with the setting of that day's sun and a new world order is being born while I speak, with birth-pangs so terrible that it seems almost incredible that life could come out of such fearful suffering and such overwhelming sorrow.” IfsWorldWarSeemsSufferingOrderSpeakBornSunChangedBirthTerribleSorrowDiedIncrediblesInternationalJewStormSettingSettingsBrokeOverwhelmingNew WorldFearfulFloodNew World OrderWorld OrderTempestPassed AwayConspiracy TheoryWorld GovernmentOld WorldNwoOne World GovernmentEruptionVolcanic Eruptions Book:A World in Ferment: Interpretations of the War for a New World Source: A World in Ferment: Interpretations of the War for a New World
“Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon his freedom and a limitation of his right to make the most of himself in order that he may rise in the scale of the social and economic order in which he lives. The notion that all human beings born into this world enter at birth into a definite social and economic classification, in which classification they must remain permanently through life, is wholly false and fatal to a progressive civilization.” WorldLifeHumansMayLife IsOrderGivenSocialBornHuman BeingsEconomicThis WorldBirthCivilizationAuthorityAchievementLaborWorkersNotionScalesLimitationProductiveProgressiveDefiniteUnjustMaximumRestrictionClassificationEconomic Order Author:Nicholas Murray Butler
“Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there may be hope for the world. If immoral, there is not only no hope, but no prospect of anything but destruction of all that has been accomplished during the last 5,000 years.” IfsWorldYearsMayHas BeensLastsForceMoralDestructionAccomplishedImmoralNo Hope Author:Nicholas Murray Butler
