W Quotes
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“What the world needs is character,
alive enough to value first the welfare of
the living over the last wishes of the dead,
human enough to identify as human, beyond
the gaslighting spell of prejudiced fairytales.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“What the world needs is more compassion; love in the broad sense, and use of practical reason to solve human problems. What it needs less is ideological and religious fanaticism, of which, unfortunately, there currently is aplenty.”
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
“What the world needs is not 'a little bit of love', but a surgical operation.”
Source: The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes
“What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer”
Source: Bertrand Russell's Best
“What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.”
Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
“What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.”
“What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.”
Source: Margaret Mead, some personal views
“What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others.”
“What the world needs most is openness: Open hearts, open doors, open eyes, open minds, open ears, open souls.”
“What the world needs now is liberated men who have the qualities Silverstein cites, men who are 'empathetic and strong, autonomous and connected, responsible to self, to family and friends, to society, and capable of understanding how those responsibilities are, ultimately, inseparable.' Men need feminist thinking. It it the theory that supports their spiritual evolution and their shift away from the patriarchal model. Patriarchy is destroying the well-being of men, taking their lives daily.”
Source: The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
“What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of.”
“What the world needs now is love, sweet love.”
“What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it.”
“What the world needs right now... a good, artistic, gothic, terrifying scare”
“What the world needs today are alliances that improve the lives of people by creating opportunities and not cheap public relations stunts. Where I come from we say 'kwa ground vitu ni different'.
[G7 Summit, June 12, 2021]”
“What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who believe in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. It needs a moral mobilization against the hideous ideas of the police state and human slavery. I suggest that the United Nations should be reorganized without the Communist nations in it. It is a proposal based solely upon moral, spiritual and defense foundations. It is a proposal to redeem the concept of the United Nations to the high purpose for which it was created. It is a proposal for moral and spiritual cooperation of God-fearing free nations. And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us.”
“What the world needs today is neither a new order, a new education, a new system, a new society nor a new religion. The remedy lies in a mind and a heart filled with holiness.”
“What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.”
“What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.”
“What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.”
“What the world sees as delay might actually be divine timing, wrapped in stillness and mystery.”
“What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.”
“What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.”
“What the world wants today is twenty men and women who can dare to stand in the street yonder and say that they possess nothing but God. Who will go? Why should one fear? If this is true, what else could matter? If it is not true, what do our lives matter?”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.”
“What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.”
“What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.”
“What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)”
Source: Picture of Dorian Gray
“What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.”
“What the writers do, and we hopefully can bring to life, is that they present characters who, on the surface, aren't always heroic and their acts aren't always devoid of selfishness.”
“What the Yankees need is a second base coach.”
“What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greenest where it's watered.”
“What the younger generations don’t have are
letters.” … “Why bother when you can e-mail,
phone or text.” … “As we contact each other
more and more”, … “there is, oddly, nothing
to show for it.”
Source: The View From Here: Life At Seventy
“What the youth can achieve in ten years, will take the elderly a thousand years.”
Source: Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty
“What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.”
“What their scorned, over-fucked mothers never teach them is this: men can be hurt, too.”
“What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?”
“What then are we afraid of? Can we have too much of God? Is it a misfortune to be freed from the heavy yoke of the world, and to bear the light burden of Jesus Christ? Do we fear to be too happy, too much deliver from ourselves, from the caprices of pride, the violence of our passions, and the tyranny of this deceitful world?”
“What then are we to do about our problems? We must learn to live with them until such time as God delivers us from them...we must pray for grace to endure them without murmuring. Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting. They harm us only when we resist them or endure them unwillingly.”
“What, then, can be the Absolute? The most logical answer is that nothing can be absolute. This answer hides a few paradoxes. If nothing can be Absolute, then there is no absolute. It is impossible to conceive something absolute in the smallest and the biggest, functioning perfectly without the possibility of a mistake or chance. Impossibility of this kind leads to the erosion of the perfection of the Absolute.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“What then did those immortals see, the writers who aimed at all which is greatest and scorned the accuracy which lies in every detail? They saw many other things and they also saw this, that Nature determined man to be no low or ignoble animal; but introducing us into life and this entire universe as into some vast assemblage, to be spectators, in a sort, of her entirety, and most ardent competitors, did then implant in our souls an invincible and eternal love of that which is great and, by our own standard, more devine. Therefore it is, that for the speculation and thought which are within the scope of human endeavour not all the universe together is sufficient, our conceptions often pass beyond the bounds which limit it; and if a man were to look upon life all around, and see how in all things the extraordinary, the great, the beautiful stand supreme, he will at once know for what ends we have been born.”
Source: On Great Writing (On the Sublime)
“What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?”
“What then do we learn from Paul's unbroken pattern of beginning and ending his letters this way ("Grace be to you." "Grace be with you.")? We learn that grace is an unmistakable priority in the Christian life. We learn that it is from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, but that it can come through people. We learn that grace is ready to flow to us every time we take up the inspired Scriptures to read them. And we learn that grace will abide with us when we lay the Bible down and go about our daily living.
In other words, we learn that grace is not merely a past reality but a future one. Every time I reach for the Bible, God's grace is a reality that will flow to me. Every time I put the Bible down and go about my business, God's grace will go with me. This is what I mean by future grace.”
Source: Future Grace
“What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)
“What then, had I discovered? That there is nobody so duplicitous as oneself? That certainty is nothing but unreasonable belief? That there can be no answer to death? That there should be no answer to it, at least not for the living? That we have in all of us, written into our very matter, an unpassable divide; and if there is a bridge between this world and the next, then surely there is only one toll to pay.”
Source: The Spirit Engineer
“What then in eternity will conscience demand of you by the consciousness that you are an individual? It will teach you that if you judge (for in very many cases it will restrain you from judging), you must bear the responsibility for your judgment. It will teach you that you should examine what you understand and what you do not understand... For many fools do not make a wise man, and the crowd is doubtful recommendation for a cause. ...But the man who, conscious of himself as an individual, judges with eternal responsibility, he is slow to pass judgment upon the unusual. For it is possible that it is falsehood and deceit and illusion and vanity. But it is also possible that it is true.”
Source: Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing: Spiritual Preparation for the Office of Confession
“What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Gay: Translations, Prologues and epilogues, Fables, Poems from 'Gay's chair', Miscellaneous pieces, Songs and ballads
“What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.”
Source: The Vision of Nietzsche
“What then is a poem?
Words are worlds when a poem falls on empty pages,
And through the blur, you gaze at a burning ball.
Dormant they lay, in rest and sleep,
Now awake in words, a living light.”