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For eight years, you had the Bush administration with a very interventionist policy, driving into world affairs, driving primarily into the Islamic world, army first or fist first. ~ Richard Engel
World Affairs quotes by Richard Engel
The qualifications that I have to speak on world affairs are exactly the same ones Henry Kissinger has, and Walt Rostow has, or anybody in the Political Science Department, professional historians - none, none that you don't have. The only difference is, I don't pretend to have qualifications, nor do I pretend that qualifications are needed. I mean, if somebody were to ask me to give a talk on quantum physics, I'd refuse - because I don't understand enough. But world affairs are trivial: there's nothing in the social sciences or history or whatever that is beyond the intellectual capacities of an ordinary fifteen-year-old. You have to do a little work, you have to do some reading, you have to be able to think but there's nothing deep - if there are any theories around that require some special kind of training to understand, then they've been kept a carefully guarded secret. ~ Noam Chomsky
World Affairs quotes by Noam Chomsky
My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food in regards to world affairs was talked about a lot. ~ Jennifer Gilmore
World Affairs quotes by Jennifer Gilmore
she enjoyed her continued glimpses into the inner workings of world affairs. She often would sit back in the middle of some long meeting and wonder how it was that these men and women had risen to the top of the global elite. They weren't marked by exceptional genius. The did not have extraordinarily deep knowledge or creative opinions. If there was one trait the best of them possessed, it was a talent for simplification. They had the ability to take a complex situation and capture the heart of the matter in simple terms. A second after they located the core fact of any problem, their observation seemed blindingly obvious, but somehow nobody had simplified the issue in quite those terms beforehand. They took reality and made it manageable for busy people. p338 ~ David Brooks
World Affairs quotes by David Brooks
We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world affairs - peace, human rights, economics progress national independence and international stability - means supporting our friends and defending our interests. ~ Ronald Reagan
World Affairs quotes by Ronald Reagan
And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic class war which will be waged in the big tent we call the world. ~ Ralph Bunche
World Affairs quotes by Ralph Bunche
The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask? ~ Anthony Liccione
World Affairs quotes by Anthony Liccione
World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world. ~ George Schultz
World Affairs quotes by George Schultz
Finally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship. ~ J. William Fulbright
World Affairs quotes by J. William Fulbright
Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs. ~ Victor Ponta
World Affairs quotes by Victor Ponta
By serving as the dominant power in the Gulf, WE maintain a 'stranglehold' over the economies of other nations. This gives us extraordinary leverage in world affairs, and explains to some degree why states like Japan, Britain, France, and Germany - states that are even more dependent on Persian Gulf oil than we are - defer to Washington on major international issues (like Iraq) even when they disagree with us. ~ Michael Klare
World Affairs quotes by Michael Klare
But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe. ~ Romano Prodi
World Affairs quotes by Romano Prodi
Europe has never had a single or unified voice in world affairs: a common foreign policy. It has often appeared to be rudderless and unable to make quick decisions when faced with economic crises, presenting instead an image of division and hopelessness. ~ Klaus Schwab
World Affairs quotes by Klaus Schwab
The absolute necessity to create a proper Earth government' - we should inscribe this as the priority item on the agenda of world affairs. ~ Robert Muller
World Affairs quotes by Robert Muller
My politics are wildly different from hers, but someone who has been good for women in politics, stamped her authority on European and world affairs, is Angela Merkel. ~ Nicola Sturgeon
World Affairs quotes by Nicola Sturgeon
Oh, what a nation of moralists the Americans are! With what fervor do they relish bringing their sexual misconduct to light! A pity that they do not bring their moral outrage to bear on their president's arrogance above the law; a pity that they do not unleash their moral zest on an administration that runs guns to terrorists. But, of course, boudoir morality takes less imagination, and can be indulged in without the effort of keeping up with world affairs - or even bothering to know "the whole story" behind the sexual adventure. ~ John Irving
World Affairs quotes by John Irving
Broadcast radio was entering its own golden age during the Depression, with live programming on stations all through the day. Local stations needed singers, musicians, announcers, and whipcord personalities, along with Christian clergy to give prayers and pundits to speak on world affairs. ~ Douglas Brinkley
World Affairs quotes by Douglas Brinkley
When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment. ~ John Henrik Clarke
World Affairs quotes by John Henrik Clarke
If the recently graduated college alumna can't turn her trained brain to some intelligent awareness of our responsibilities in World Affairs, we're going to foul up our leadership like England did, as sure as God made little green apples. ~ Elaine Dundy
World Affairs quotes by Elaine Dundy
Jewels have played a colorful part in the evolution of world affairs. Because precious stones tend to inspire both admiration and greed, leaders have found convenient excuses for seeking them and have used them to impress crowds, reward friends, deprive foes, forge alliances, and justify war. Jewels may find their highest expression in the decorative arts, but they have also earned a place in the art of the possible. ~ Madeleine Albright
World Affairs quotes by Madeleine Albright
what if you've been born more intelligent than others? and you can't force them to understand you, but you can understand them?. then you just need to force yourself on them, and you can map out their axioms and core beliefs and try to transform them. and then map out the fundamental concepts they need to know to understand you. i wish you understood me. ~ Marouane LAASSAFAR
World Affairs quotes by Marouane LAASSAFAR
There's no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan. ~ Noam Chomsky
World Affairs quotes by Noam Chomsky
Thus did I receive, through the singing of these various hymns and the moral education that accompanied them, not only a religious, but a political schooling of sorts. For though the intertwining of morality and politics does not necessarily make for a clear understanding of the cynicism that governs world affairs., it does engender impatience with and a rejection of this cynicism, and a real belief in a more perfect, less unjust world. And though I regret not having been taught more about the real world, I have never regretted being taught this kind of morality first. ~ Jean Said Makdisi
World Affairs quotes by Jean Said Makdisi
Russia and the U.S. bear a special responsibility in world affairs. We have much to offer the rest of the world. Our common history testifies to this, and modern challenges demand that we work together. ~ Sergei Lavrov
World Affairs quotes by Sergei Lavrov
A new chapter in the history of international politics has begun, one in which the pursuit and control of energy resources would be the central dynamic of world affairs, and governments. ~ Michael Klare
World Affairs quotes by Michael Klare
It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation-states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future. ~ Samuel P. Huntington
World Affairs quotes by Samuel P. Huntington
The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe. ~ Natan Sharansky
World Affairs quotes by Natan Sharansky
Inexperienced in the course of world affairs and incapable of being prepared for all the chances that happen in it, I ask myself only 'Can you also will that your maxim should become a universal law?' Where you cannot it is to be rejected... ~ Immanuel Kant
World Affairs quotes by Immanuel Kant
Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs. ~ Douglas Feith
World Affairs quotes by Douglas Feith
Public men in America are too public. Too accessible. This sitting on the stoop and being 'just folk' was all very well for local politics and the simple farmer days of a hundred years ago, but it's no good for world affairs. Opening flower-shows and being genial to babies and all that is out of date. These parish politics methods have to go. The ultimate leader ought to be distant, audible but far off. Show yourself and then vanish into a cloud. Marx would never have counted for one tenth of his weight as 'Charlie Marx' playing chess with the boys, and Woodrow Wilson threw away all his magic as far as Europe was concerned when he crossed the Atlantic. Before he crossed he was a god -- what a god he was! After he arrived he was just a grinning guest. I've got to be the Common Man, yes, but not common like that. ~ H.G.Wells
World Affairs quotes by H.G.Wells
Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science. ~ W. H. Auden
World Affairs quotes by W. H. Auden
We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power. ~ Albert Einstein
World Affairs quotes by Albert Einstein
In this century, the Australian Century, Australia will also have an opportunity to achieve extraordinary feats. Just as the United States dominates world affairs with less than five per cent of the global population, Australia too can make a lasting impression with its own limited demographics. The rise of the global middle class is Australia's pathway to exceptionalism. ~ Asher Judah
World Affairs quotes by Asher Judah
The mercy which happened to me gave me belief, hope, and sufficient daring, not to resist further the spirit of the depths, but to utter his word. But before I could pull myself together to really do it, I needed a visible sign that would show me that the spirit of the depths in me was at the same time the ruler of the depths of world affairs. ~ C. G. Jung
World Affairs quotes by C. G. Jung
Democracy cannot survive where there is such uniformity that everyone wears exactly the same intellectual uniform or point of view. Democracy implies diversity of outlook, a variety of points of view on politics, economics, and world affairs. Hence the educational ideal is not uniformity but unity, for unity allows diversity of points of view regarding the good means to a good end. ~ Fulton J. Sheen
World Affairs quotes by Fulton J. Sheen
In a proper Islamic University, fard 'ain knowledge which represents the permanent intellectual and spiritual needs of the human soul
should form the core curriculum, and should be made obligatory to all students. Fard kifayah knowledge
reflecting societal needs and global trends
is not obligatory to all, but must be mastered by and adequate number of Muslims to ensure the proper development of the Community and to safeguard its proper place in world affairs. The fard 'ain knowledge shall include knowledge of the traditional Islamic sciences such as the Arabic language, metaphysics, the Qur'an and Hadith, ethics, the shari'ah sciences, and the history of Islam. Consonant with our position that these fard 'ain sciences are not static but dynamic, they should be continuously studied, analyzed, and applied in relation to the fard kifayah sciences; i.e. the fields of their specialization. ~ Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud
World Affairs quotes by Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud
Dr. Chanter, in his brilliant History of Human Thought in the Twentieth Century, has made the suggestion that only a very small proportion of people are capable of acquiring new ideas of political or social behaviour after they are twenty-five years old. On the other hand, few people become directive in these matters until they are between forty and fifty. Then they prevail for twenty years or more. The conduct of public affairs therefore is necessarily twenty years or more behind the living thought of the times. This is what Dr. Chanter calls the "delayed
realisation of ideas".

In the less hurried past this had not been of any great importance, but in the violent crises of the Revolutionary Period it became a primary fact. It is evident now that whatever the emergency, however obvious the new problem before our species in the nineteen-twenties, it was necessary for the whole generation that had learned nothing and could learn nothing from the Great War and its sequelae, to die out before any rational handling of world affairs could even begin. The cream of the youth of the war years had been killed; a stratum of men already middle-aged remained in control, whose ideas had already set before the Great War. It was, says Chanter, an inescapable phase. The world of the Frightened Thirties and the Brigand Forties was under the dominion of a generation of unteachable, obstinately obstructive men, blinded men, miseducating, misleading the baffled younger people for ~ H.G. Wells
World Affairs quotes by H.G. Wells
America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a Lilliputian. ~ Mohsin Hamid
World Affairs quotes by Mohsin Hamid
Reverend Ted Haggard's followers still think he's not gay. I'm not kidding. In their world, there are no gay people. There are just straight people who are sinning. They don't want to do it, but the Devil makes them! He targets people like Reverend Ted. That's how it happened. The Devil got hold of Reverend Ted, and Ted said, 'Get thee behind me, Satan! And put it in, gently'. ~ Bill Maher
World Affairs quotes by Bill Maher
The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world. ~ Louise Bernikow
World Affairs quotes by Louise Bernikow
Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine tree, cut my initials in the bark of an aspen, get bit by a mosquito, see a mountain bluebird, find a big blue columbine, get lost in the firs, hike above timberline, sunbathe on snow and eat some ice, climb the rocks and stand in the wind at the top of the world on the peak of Tukuhnikivats. ~ Edward Abbey
World Affairs quotes by Edward Abbey
People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time. ~ Norman Cousins
World Affairs quotes by Norman Cousins
Ours is a cruel world, and I cannot change how it's made. ~ Eragon Shadeslayer
World Affairs quotes by Eragon Shadeslayer
Inequality and poverty, health and wealth are hand in hand.
And if we are all born equal that should be true in all lands.
We cannot divide the world between poor and rich countries.
It's like saying the ones are good, the others are junkies.
That can only increase more prejudice, miseries and sorrow.
Turning the wheel today it will lead to a better tomorrow. ~ Ana Claudia Antunes
World Affairs quotes by Ana Claudia Antunes
If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be a very different place. ~ Jaggi Vasudev
World Affairs quotes by Jaggi Vasudev
Wishing is bad," he said again. "It makes you hurt. Makes all the missing parts hurt, makes them open up new and makes them bleed."
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"You take out a part of you," Roosevelt murmured. "Take it out and blow on it and toss it to the winds like dust, and you say, 'Find all the missing parts of me. Go out among the world and find the missing parts of me.' But instead of getting back what you lost you just lose more. Wishing is bad. Wish long enough and there won't be any of you left. ~ Robert Jackson Bennett
World Affairs quotes by Robert Jackson Bennett
To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods. If these truths mean the world is less comforting than it might have been, it seems like a pretty small price to pay. ~ Mira Grant
World Affairs quotes by Mira Grant
I will lead mankind into a new world! You cannot kill me! No man can murder me! ~ Cesare Borgia
World Affairs quotes by Cesare Borgia
I applied at Tower Records on Sunset Boulevard after my band broke up. I really wanted to work there because it involved the love of my life, music. It was also located on the world famous Sunset Strip, a place I dreamed of going to ever since I was a teenager in the 80's to become a rock star. ~ K.D. Sanders
World Affairs quotes by K.D. Sanders
I went to Bergdorf Goodman as an assistant in the fashion office and that was really my first exposure into the world of retail. Dawn Mello was president at the time and she had just left Gucci where she found Tom Ford. ~ Roopal Patel
World Affairs quotes by Roopal Patel
If most people were to take a moment to picture in their minds the average, not-for-profit, save-the-world girl, they ... well, they probably wouldn't, because who wants to think about hemp, hairy legs, and Birkenstocks? But I'd rather eat a pair of Birkenstocks than put them on my feet, and I love, love, love my Christian Louboutins. ~ Nancy Lublin
World Affairs quotes by Nancy Lublin
The world know it not; but you, Autumn, I confess it: your wind at night-fall stabs deep into my heart ~ Murasaki Shikibu
World Affairs quotes by Murasaki Shikibu
You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from. ~ Daphne Zuniga
World Affairs quotes by Daphne Zuniga
Open up your eyes for me people, the prophecies are true and the beast is real. ~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett
World Affairs quotes by Jonathan Anthony Burkett
His slender hands curled into fists. "You don't want to change? Do you have any idea what I've been through for you? Why do you think I keep coming back to that horrid, dirty, decaying world of yours? Because you changed me! It makes me sick to think of how I have shifted away from what I should be!"
I leaned back, terrified of the pure fury in his face.
He took a deep breath, closing his eyes and releasing all the tension from his facial muscles, returning them back to the mask of perfection. "But this is irrelevant. When I get back to where I am supposed to be, my connection to eternity will be restored and flawless. I will be restored. And you will be connected, too, and we have forever to - "
"Whoa, whoa, stop right there, psycho. I'm not coming with you."
He got that infuriating smile, that one that all faeries have that says they know more than you ever will and you can't even begin to function on the same plane as them but isn't it cute that you think you have any right to consider yourself a rational creature. It was a condescending head pat in smile form.
"Evelyn," he said, his golden voice trying to pull me in closer. "I love you. ~ Kiersten White
World Affairs quotes by Kiersten White
What would you do, if you were a free man?"
"I would take my violin and play. I would walk the world and play, until someone called me by name and called me home. ~ S. Jae-Jones
World Affairs quotes by S. Jae-Jones
Break your shackles and reach out to your freedom. Break to pieces whatever indoctrination and programming that holds you hostage. The world is yours. Get possession of it. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
World Affairs quotes by Bangambiki Habyarimana
When you see that any scholar loves the world, then his scholarship is in doubt. ~ Umar
World Affairs quotes by Umar
The ocean of solutions is within, enliven that ... It's a world of clues, a world of mystery but the mystery can get solved, you can find a lot of answers for these things within. ~ David Lynch
World Affairs quotes by David Lynch
It is a sad thing to me that in this world a persons value is measured by the size of their wallet. ~ Heather Wolf
World Affairs quotes by Heather Wolf
Within the secular world picture, Neuromania and Darwinitis are the biggest piles of rubbish. ~ Raymond Tallis
World Affairs quotes by Raymond Tallis
It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years. ~ Ross Perot
World Affairs quotes by Ross Perot
In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called acedia, a 'dangerous form of spiritual alienation'
a devaluing of the world and its creator. ~ Richard Louv
World Affairs quotes by Richard Louv
You're sort of programmed a certain way because of your environment. That's all you know. But we don't have that anymore because of the internet. Because of the internet we're all communicating with each other all across the board, so you're getting information from people all around the world, hitting a much more diverse slice of culture. ~ Joe Rogan
World Affairs quotes by Joe Rogan
Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness. ~ Gerard Way
World Affairs quotes by Gerard Way
Here's what I believe. We have control over ourselves at every single moment. We don't control the world. We don't control other people (or at least, we shouldn't.) But we are in control of our experience at all times. ~ Stephen Lovegrove
World Affairs quotes by Stephen Lovegrove
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people – that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. ~ James Thurber
World Affairs quotes by James Thurber
I think it's easy to stay angry at a world that never promises you invincibility but still manages to break your heart with the way some moments can make you feel so infinite. ~ Hannah Brencher
World Affairs quotes by Hannah Brencher
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