Quotes About Better World

#1. Today we have different idols. . . We have trusted in human reason, science, and technology to solve our problems and progress toward a better world and a prosperous life. Yet idolatry brings death.

Craig G. Bartholomew

#2. This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Earl Wilson

#3. Our job here is not to build a better world ... but to do all we can to help make it brighter.

Timothy Pina

#4. So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them enough power to destroy all justice, all freedom, and all human dignity.

Thomas Sowell

#5. Make a little effort to give up your insignificant quarrels and eventually a better world will follow.

Abhijit Naskar

#6. It is time to recognize the past and ongoing genocides to prevent new ones. Together we can build a better world!

Widad Akreyi

#7. The core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence, empathy, equity, personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon which any viable vision of a better world can possibly be constructed

Jonathon Porritt

#8. To succeed in big-city politics requires a powerful, motivating vision of a better world, a plan to get there, a willingness to meet constituents on their terms, and a tough political skin.

Michael Nutter

#9. I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#10. There are basically two kinds of revolutionaries living in the world today. One looks at a crowd of people and asks how each might become a catalyst in bringing about a better world. The other looks to a picture of some fabled leader and asks how that crowd might come to follow him to the death.

James Tracy

#11. We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them.

Tony Judt

#12. This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to be better people came to be acknowledge, if not thoroughly understood, by a significantly large minority.

Tom Robbins

#13. Understanding that which is foreign to you is fundamental to cultivating a sense of connection and unity with one another. We are ultimately trying to accomplish the same thing, which is survival and the thriving of a better world.

Adrian Grenier

#14. Ben Says: If our children are the hope & future for a better world...then let's work diligently to better their lives today!

Timothy Pina
Bullying Ben

Timothy Pina

#15. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world.

Bertrand Russell

#16. When I'm having good sex, I'm the happiest, least violent person on earth. If people had more and better sex and felt less guilty about it, we'd live in a much better world."
"I am happy to help you in your quest to fuck for world peace."
"I'll take you up on that offer.

Tiffany Reisz

#17. See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects.

Robert Breault

#18. Mickey Mouse should be in the public domain by now. What a better world it would be if other people were doing things with Mickey Mouse!

Lloyd Kaufman

#19. [...] it would have been an affront to all good souls who had worked for a better world over the millennia not to engineer a system for preserving finer thoughts after the millennium arrived and all ideologies died and people became animals once more.

Douglas Coupland

#20. Believe in yourself, learn, and never stop wanting to build a better world.

Mary McLeod Bethune

#21. Malcolm: So me and mine gotta lay down and die ... So you can live in your better world?
Operative: I'm not going to live there. There's no place for me there ... any more than there is for you. I'm a monster. What I do is evil. I have no illusions about it. But it must be done.

Joss Whedon

#22. A parents wishes for their children shouldn't be to be as good as them but to surpass their own abilities and hopefully lead to a better world.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#23. Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

Tommy Douglas

#24. You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end,each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.

Marie Curie

#25. I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend,
that together we may succeed in building a better world
through human understanding and love,
and that in doing so we may reduce
the pain and suffering of all sentient beings.

Dalai Lama XIV

#26. You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.

Terry Pratchett

#27. I have two daughters that are the loves of my life and I want to leave them a better world, a better country, a better state and a better city.

Michael Bloomberg

#28. Creativity is not the work of a few. We each carry within us the image of God the Creator; we each have the task of making the earth into a fairer, kinder place. The first step is imagining a better world, and that is most apt to happen when we suffer or look on suffering.

Elizabeth O'Connor

#29. Be A Hero For A Better World ... Stand Up And Help Stop Abuse Today!

Timothy Pina

#30. Man must always imagine and believe in a "second" reality or a better world than the one that is given him by nature.

Ernest Becker

#31. I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didn't achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.

Alan Cranston

#32. He knew how to construct a song out of the nothing of day-to-day life and how to sing that nothing into a song so beautiful that it could sustain the vision of a whole and better world.

Kate DiCamillo

#33. The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world.

George W. Bush

#34. With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

Dalai Lama

#35. Words of Wisdom Approach each day with positive thoughts. Believe in the goodness of others. Create a better world by being a friend. Decorate your life with beautiful things. Educate yourself through the teaching of others.

Scott Schwab

#36. What I am thinking and doing day by day is resistlessly shaping my future - a future in which there is no expiation except through my own better conduct. No one can save. No one can live my life for me. If I am wise I shall begin today to build my own truer and better world from within.

Horatio Dresser

#37. A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

Douglas MacArthur

#38. If we remain determined to shape a new and better world of separate, sovereign nations, this new century will be a happier one.

Alan Caruba

#39. Live creatively. Create life. These are two ways to make a better world.

Tablo

#40. It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

Barbara Walters

#41. Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you

William Shakespeare

#42. The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.

Wayne Shorter

#43. The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.

Alan W. Watts

#44. The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an intelligent reach for a better world and an intelligent approach to the living future.

Sun Ra

#45. A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Maurice Chevalier

#46. Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of nations that aspire, despite all their tragedies and problems, to become truly emancipated, to build a better world.

Fidel Castro

#47. Two ideas militate against our consciously contributing to a better world. The idea that we can do everything or the conclusion that we can do nothing to make this globe a better place to live are both temptations of the most insidious form. One leads to arrogance; the other to despair.

Joan D. Chittister

#48. How desperately I wanted to forsake these facts, to open a smelly old book or to go down on a pretty young girl instead. Why couldn't I have been born to a better world?

Gary Shteyngart

#49. I was a kid. I didn't know about love, that you see someone and whether or not they say much, they make the world suddenly different, a mysterious and more alive place that you can access only through them. And the new, better world falls lifeless and flat when they go away.

Rachel Kushner

#50. ... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified ... Religion or crime, every human endeavor in fact, finally obeys this unreasonable desire and claims to give life a form it does not have.

Albert Camus

#51. The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.

J. Michael Straczynski

#52. The people are craving for a better world. Let us mobilize them as co-workers for a better world.

Robert Muller

#53. Consumers desiring a better world have already achieved some successes in this regard, helping to transform several industries from the ground up.

Simon Mainwaring

#54. Delusional or not, maybe if I believe in a better world with enough conviction, and convince others to believe it as well, then it will be real.

Emilyann Girdner

#55. We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

Ralph Bunche

#56. People who were personally concerned about a better world, came to Washington, were drawn to it. Even though where we were going was still to be worked out. There was an elan, an optimism . . . an evangelism . . . it was an adventure.

Studs Terkel

#57. ... and he wasn't reconciled to dying. Dora told him he was going to a better world. "Mebbe, mebbe," says poor Ben, "but I'm sorter used to the imperfections of this one.

L.M. Montgomery

#58. If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.

Noam Chomsky

#59. Education fails unless the Three R's at one end of the school spectrum lead ultimately to the Four P's at the other-Preparati on for Earning, Preparation for Living, Preparation for Understanding, Preparation for Participation in the problems involved in the making of a better world.

Norman Cousins

#60. There is only one more thing for me to say: Please help make my forecast wrong. Together we could create a much better world.

Jorgen Randers

#61. You create what you speak. So, speak a better world.
Speak a happier and more loving life. Speak your
despair and let it lead you back to your truth.

Rachel C. Weingarten

#62. Never stop dreaming of moonbeams and fairy dust, shiny stars and the wonder of the heavens, a happier life and a better world.

James Gormley

#63. I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.

Garrison Keillor

#64. Lovely eyes in colour, lovely eyes in form - large and tender and quietly thoughtful - but beautiful above all things in the clear truthfulness of look that dwells in their inmost depths, and shines through all their changes of expression with the light of a purer and a better world.

Wilkie Collins

#65. I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

David Mitchell

#66. All things living are in search of a better world .

Karl Popper

#67. Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.

Paul Watson

#68. It's not a case of us against them, it's a matter of melding all people's skills and resources to create a better world for everyone !

Lyn St. James

#69. In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.

Katha Pollitt

#70. We are working to help people become better people; then this will become a better world.

Eva Burrows

#71. Jimmy Carter is the embodiment of dignity, grace, and the hope for a better world - Carlos Santana

Yoko Ono

#72. The world is a dangerous place, but there is no better world. Remember, every one of us is responsible to make it a joyful place.

Debasish Mridha

#73. My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

Faye Wattleton

#74. There is a better world Well, there must be . . .

Cora Carmack

#75. Think of what a better world it would be if we all - the whole
world had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then
lay down with our blankets for a nap.

Robert Fulghum

#76. Most people try to make a better world for our children when what they should be doing is making better children for our world.

Carlos Slim

#77. I can't think why men would believe that it is a better world where something beautiful is destroyed and something broken left in its place.

Philippa Gregory

#78. (Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

Lester Bangs

#79. When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#80. What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing?

Naomi Klein

#81. She said ... she said don't be scared, we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, babies laugh at everything, we was born happy and to make a better world.

Dean Koontz

#82. The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.

Karl Popper

#83. Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.

Iain Pears

#84. I want a better world, but also a realistic world. We can only create a better world by becoming realistic.

Oliviero Toscani

#85. We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

Harry S. Truman

#86. It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.

Christopher Paolini

#87. Stick with hard copies; they're harder to alter after publication. In the better world, there won't be any electronics at all.

Erika Johansen

#88. I think the most basic difference between Liberalism and Conservatism today, at its core, is that Conservatives just seem to want a better world for themselves - while Liberals just seem to want a better world.

Derek R. Audette

#89. I believe that if you took privacy and you said, I'm willing to give up all of my privacy to be secure. So you weighted it as a zero. My own view is that encryption is a much better, much better world. And I'm not the only person that thinks that.

Tim Cook

#90. When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world.

Scout Cloud Lee

#91. You can never change the truths of history. You can only learn from them and use them to try and build a better world.

Timothy Pina

#92. How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?

R.A. Salvatore

#93. Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.

Linus Pauling

#94. A better world is always waiting for a better you.

Debasish Mridha

#95. Your goal is to make a better world through the work you do. It's not always possible, and you have to earn a living.

Lynne Stewart

#96. Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

Mahmoud Darwish

#97. Our children must never lose their zeal for
building a better world.

Mary McLeod Bethune

#98. At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#99. I believe women can lead more in the workplace.
I believe men can contribute more in the home. And I believe that this will create a better world, one where half our institutions are run by women and half our homes are run by men.

Sheryl Sandberg

#100. If people had more and better sex and felt less guilty about it, we'd live in a much better world.

Tiffany Reisz