W Quotes
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“World First, Nation Never
(Denationalizing Sonnet)
No government wants to manufacture terror,
But they do want to manufacture control.
In doing so they end up manufacturing terror,
Thus they end up manufacturing war.
There is no such thing as war on terrorism,
The whole narrative is rigged to peddle fear.
Citizens without fear are citizens without border,
Democratic autocracy thrives on civilian fear.
Ceasefire only postpones war,
What’s needed is demilitarization.
Till borderly apes wake apart national pride,
Democracy only sustains a paradigm of poison.
World first and forever, nation never;
Till then, all blood is on your hands.
Either you are a nation’s simian citizen,
or you are planet earth’s civilized human.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“World first, nation second.”
Source: Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home
“World gives everything to those who don’t need it. (Matthew Effect). More you have it, more they give it to you”
Source: Secrets to modern woman's heart - I: What women really want ? Be ready to be shocked!
“World gone money mad. The pinch of war gone, people must spend. Buy and forget. Spend and solace. Silks for sorrows. Jewels to bring back joy.”
Source: Jonah's Gourd Vine
“World Gospel (The Sonnet)
So long as there is selfishness,
There is no Christmas.
So long as there is occupation,
There is no Hanukkah.
So long as there is cruelty,
There is no Ramadan.
Till we end militant atheism,
There is no Humanism.
Till you conquer superstition,
There is no Diwali.
So long as there is division,
There is no Vaisakhi.
So long as there is inequality,
There is no Fourth of July.
Till we abolish hate from earth,
At half mast all flags must fly.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“World Government is not only possible, it is inevitable; and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its truest sense,in its only sense, the patriotism of humans who love their national heritages so deeply that they wish to preserve them in safety for the common good.”
“World has become a market. In a market, things that don't sell disappear. Love doesn't sell, sympathy sells. Love has disappeared, sympathy is all that is left. We either play victim to get sympathy or we search for victims to give sympathy.”
“World has no shortage of monkeys who want to christianize, islamize, zionize or saffronize the society, but humans who behave human are in short supply.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“World has no shortage of nerve cells, yet consciousness is scarce.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“World has no shortage of tradition,
yet civilization is scarce.
World has no shortage of nerve cells,
yet consciousness is scarce.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.”
“World Health Day is an opportunity to highlight the problem, but above all, to stimulate action. It is an occasion to call on all partners - governments, international donors, civil society, the private sector, the media, families and individuals alike - to develop sustainable activities for the survival, health and well-being of mothers and children. On this World Health Day, let us rededicate ourselves to that mission.”
“World hinges on moral foundations. God has made it so! God has made the universe to be based on a moral law. So long as man disobeys it he is revolting against God. That’s what we need in the world today - people who will stand for right and goodness.”
“World History 101 - The Actual History
History is not a record of truth, history is a record of triumph. The triumphant writes history as it fits their narrative - or to be more accurate, history is written by the conquerors for maintaining the supremacy of the conquerors, while the conquered lose everything.
Let me give you an example. In a commendable endeavor of goodwill and reparations a descendant of the British conquerors, President Lyndon Johnson started Hispanic Heritage Week, which was later expanded into a month by another white descendant, President Ronald Reagan - fast forward to present time - during the Hispanic Heritage Month the entire North America tries to celebrate Native American history. But there is a glitch - Spanish is not even a Native American language.
Native Americans did not even speak Spanish, until the brutes of Spain overran Puerto Rico like pest bearing disease and destruction, after a pathetic criminal called Columbus stumbled upon "La Isabela" in the 1500s.
Many of the natives struggled till death to save their home - many were killed by the foreign diseases to which they had no immunity. Those who lived, every last trace of their identity was wiped out, by the all-powerful and glorious spanish colonizers - their language, their traditions, their heritage, everything - just like the Portuguese did in Brazil.
The Spaniards would've done the same to Philippines on the other side of the globe, had they had the convenience to stay longer. Heck, even the name Philippines is not the original name - the original name of the islands was (probably) Maniolas, as referred to by Ptolemy. But when the Spaniard retards of the time set foot there, they named it after, then crown prince, later Philip II of Spain.
Just reminiscing those abominable atrocities makes my blood boil, and yet somehow, the brutal "glory" of the conquerors lives on as such even in this day and age, as glory that is.
That's why José Martí is so important, that's why Kwanzaa is so important, that's why Darna is so important - in the making of a world that has a place for every culture, not just the culture of the conquerors.
No other "civilized" people have done more damage to the world than the Europeans, and yet, on the pages of history books their glory of conquest is still packaged as glory, not as atrocity. Why is that? I don't know the answer - do you?
Trillions of dollars, pounds and euros in aid won't suffice to undo the damage - but what just might heal those wounds from the past, is if the offspring of the oppressors and the offspring of the oppressed, both hand in hand and shoulder to shoulder, unravel the history as it happened, not as it was presented - what just might heal the scars of yesterday, is if together we come forward to learn about each other's past, so that for the first time in history, we can actually write "human history", not the "conquerors' history" - so that for the first time ever, we write history not as conquerors and conquered, not as oppressors and oppressed, but as one species - as one humankind.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“World history is a court of judgment.”
“World history is made by minorities when this minority of number embodies the majority of will and determination.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“World history is tragic.”
“World history mirrors the judgment of time that results in results to learn, not verdicts to punish.”
“World I have loved
and loving hated,
is it your sickness
luxuriating
in my body's world?”
Source: Collected Poems
“World in Peril (The Sonnet)
The world is in peril and security is out of the window.
If now we don't be humans, what's the point of us!
Humankind is in turmoil and anxiety is running amok.
If now we don’t be responsible what's the point of us!
Neighborhoods are wailing in fear and desperation.
If now we don’t lend a hand what's the point of us!
Communities are struggling in crippling uncertainty.
If now we don't break narrowness what's the point of us!
Nations are panting to sustain health and sanity.
If now we don't rush to rescue what's the point of us!
Nature is revolting to reclaim her kingdom.
If now we don't make peace with her what's the point of us!
Now is not the time for theorizing and criticizing.
Forgetting argumentation we must stand as one people unbending.”
Source: Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac
“World Integration Day
(9th October Sonnet)
When I am gone,
Celebrate not October 9th,
as the day Naskar was born.
Celebrate it if you so desire,
as the World Day of Integration.
Tie a bracelet of assimilation,
amongst buddies across culture.
Pledge to have each other's back,
even if deemed tradition's traitor.
Mark you, one day is not enough,
to live as an integration advocate.
But the journey of a million miles,
must begin with one bold step.
Live each day of your life,
as proof of love and oneness.
Cause inclusion defying prejudice,
You are the cure for divisiveness.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“World is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.”
Source: Meditation: Insights and Inspiration
“World is a divine play. At the beginning and at the end, we are the same.”
Source: Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
“World is a facilitation centre where things are done to facilitate life”
“World is base on illusions, the one who say it is delusional to imagine they are the one hallucinating,”
“World is beautiful but it is dangerous place to live, there is so much evil behind a normal person.”
“World is born when individual is born. Individual is born when collectivity is realized. Collectivity is realized when selfishness is erased. Selfishness is erased when love is universalized.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“World is brighter with the happiness of children.”
“World is crazier and more of it than we think,
Incorrigibly plural.”
“World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The drunkenness of things being various.”
“world is full of evils and angels never think about them just think about the company you have”
“World is full of followers and leaders, and I think that if one can become both and be both, to follow in order to lead, and to lead in order to follow, then I think you're on the right path.”
“World is full of lost lives, full of unfortunate souls ruined in the name of unreasonable religious rules!”
“World is love,
Love is the world.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“World is made in your image.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“World is my brotherhood.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“World is My Brotherhood
(Sonnet 1616)
No neighborhood without brotherhood,
No sainthood without martyrdom.
Martyrdom doesn't mean dying in body,
but to be lost in others' ascension.
You're born with a human backbone,
Don't let it be vilified by cowardice.
Backbone responsible is backbone honored,
Backbone responsible is antidote to malice.
World is in your care, carry it with grace.
No bigger disgrace than backbone bending!
Find a cause that honors your human backbone,
Humans can break, while animals bend for nothing.
Stars-n-stripes, union jack, all trivial,
for the world is my neighborhood.
I got no brotherhood of cult or creed,
for the world is my brotherhood.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“World is My Family (The Sonnet)
Family is the world to everybody,
But to me the world is my family.
In the life of a true human,
Raising a wall is but blasphemy.
If the world is Juliet, I'm her Romeo,
If the world is Romeo, I'm his Juliet.
Amidst the storms of hate and hurt,
I am but an anchor of love and lenience.
I'll hide the world in my heart if necessary,
To provide sanctuary is the heart's purpose.
The struggle of this human will continue,
Till all drives of hate are memories of the past.
So I say again, my world is my responsibility.
Beware my dear bigots, I'm injurious to inhumanity!”
Source: Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting
“World is my Louisiana, I am its Mississippi.”
“World is my Louisiana,
I am its Mississippi.
Whenever it's in trouble,
My blood boils in agony.”
Source: Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace
“World is my nation, humanity my nationality.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“World is My Valentine (The Sonnet)
My first and foremost love is society,
Romance 'n things are second priority.
My love seeks not to be loved in return,
In fact, my love thrives in cold nonreciprocity.
Mine is not to reason why, mine is to love and die,
There's no greater love than that of a one-sided lover.
The world is to me what Julia was to Saint Valentine,
And what the impoverished were to Nicholas Santa.
A world anemic in love needs a day to celebrate love,
I am a lover eternal, for me every day is valentine's day.
The world is my valentine, as such it is under my care,
It's my duty to protect it from Claudius' mischievous play.
I shall stop breathing before I break this pledge of mine.
There's no greater power than the pledge of a lover divine.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“World is not designed for you to win; it's designed to be played. It's designed for you to play your position until a certain point, when you get a chance to actually do some good, make a statement, get on your soapbox and say something.”
“World is on fire, but I'ma still try”
“World is so beautiful, but alas! There are so many assholes.”
“World is suddener than we fancy it.”
Source: Selected poems
“World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.”
Source: Cosmopolis
“World is the gateway to life, life is gateway to the world.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“World is the lock, humanity is key.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“World is wider than white textbooks can contain, Justice is too sacred for imperials to grasp. While many a offspring are righting the wrongs, there are plenty who're still stuck in the past.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets