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.
—Bob Dylan
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.
—James Magary
Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now?
—William Stafford
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
—Mark Twain
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
—Mahatma Gandhi
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
—Mahatma Gandhi
Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. When you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?
—Dan Millman
I think the world is run by 'C' students.
—Al McGuire
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
—Albert Einstein
The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful.
—Frederick Locker-Lampson
All the world's a cage.
—Jeanne Phillips
And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle.
—Stan Dunn
I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only change Bessie. And, honey, that ain't easy either.
—Annie Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany, at 104
If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
—William Feather
It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.
—Alice Walker