World Quotes

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

Jerry Saltz
- Great
- Money
- Art
Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.

Wole Soyinka
- Property
- Anonymity
- Nobel

The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.

Buenaventura Durruti
- World
- History
Imagination is the light by which we can penetrate new worlds of thought and experience.

Charles F. Haanel
There were initiatives I have remained involved with in the U.S. and in the Middle East, like the Peace Corps, which might be summed up as, "Ask not that the world serve you, but ask what you can do to serve the world."

Queen Noor of Jordan
- Up
- World
- Peace
It is difficult for someone raised in my world to learn to express emotion. We are taught early to hide our feelings publicly.

Lee Radziwill
- World
The Brothers Karamazov is the most magnificent novel ever written; the episode of the Grand Inquisitor, one of the peaks in the literature of the world, can hardly be valued too highly.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
- World
- Literature
It's often taken for granted that the most dominant tech companies control the world's most important technology and communications platforms. Instead, the truth is that these giants run on top of the world's most important platform: the mobile communications networks.

Borje Ekholm
- Important
- Truth
- Control