For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body.
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Even if there is peace with all the Arab states, I don't know if the terrorism against us will pass from this world.
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the middle-grade science fiction novel that became 'The Boy at the End of the World,' it seemed only natural to build the story around a dark vision of the future. In my book, civilization has nearly destroyed itself.
The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.
I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there.
The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.
I think La Liga is the best league in the world.
Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.
And, of course, I'm constantly energized by designing courses around the world.
If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.
The first trillionaire in the world will be the person who mines asteroids.
The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world.
People who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and in our world have always inspired me.
I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.
I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill.
The standards of the international community manifest firmness. Iran has no need for long-range missiles or to collaborate with terrorist organizations all over the world.
Drive through a yellow light, and you may be ticketed thanks to a camera tied onto a pole. Everybody's watching everything. And then sending it out to the world via email.
The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.
Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
The life of a boxer is about fighting for world titles.
There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time.
I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.
Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.
