Hu Shih Quotes

The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.

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• A major impediment to economic advancement around the world is the fact that the vast majority of humans are unbanked.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • World
  • Fact
  • Advancement

• If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • World
  • Why
  • Strong

• Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Ethics

• Cyber terrorists are no different from other terrorists: No matter where they hide, we will track them down and seek to bring them to the United States to face justice.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Different
  • Justice
  • Matter

• I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Girl
  • Goal

• What I have learned is that designers are willing to tell the world that they are here to empower women from all different backgrounds and different walks of life.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • inspirational

• In New York, we tip everyone. We tip doormen, we tip cab drivers, and we tip bartenders at the bar. You'll get quite an evil eye if you don't leave a tip at the bar.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Evil
  • Eye
  • New

• Not enough people in this world are happy.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • World
  • Happy

• I'm amazed by just constantly - there's not a week that goes past where there's not someone in Ulan Bator or Rio De Janeiro suddenly says, 'Ooh, 'Downton' started this week.' You completely forget it's staggered across the world.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • World
  • Past
  • Week

• You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • World
  • American
  • Car

• The crisis of the West is a collapsing culture and vanishing peoples, as a Third World that grows by 100 million people, the equivalent of a new Mexico, every 18 months, mounts the greatest invasion in history of the world. If we do not shake off our paralysis, the West comes to an end.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • World
  • History

• All the ousted regimes, as well as the oppressive regimes that have hung on during the Arab Spring, have now blessed Egypt's coup...a blossoming democracy in Cairo can easily spread throughout the Arab world...Those who support freedom and democracy in the Middle East, however, should resist the new tyranny in Cairo with all their might.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Support

• God deserves more love than the world gives him. Men, too, need more love than they receive from the world. Our community wants to take her place where these two needs meet.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• I just really love the game. I'm very hungry, and I'm looking forward to playing in the best league in the world.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • World
  • Game

• Babyface is one of the top songwriters in the world ever, and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis have worked with everybody that I grew up listening to.

  

  Algee Smith
  • Up
  • World
  • Listening

• I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • World
  • Different
  • Movie

• I prefer being able to choose who I want to help or what I want to improve in the world by making a lot of money myself rather than just going out there and talking about things. If you have money to do things, it's much better than just talking about them.

  

  Kim Dotcom
  • World
  • Money
  • Help

• 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.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.

  

  James William Ercolan

• When I fight someone who's not a good person, I want to beat him.

  

  Jon Jones
  • Good

• The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • World
  • Mirror

• The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.

  

  Hu Shih
  • World
  • Justice
  • Eye