Better Place Quotes - Page 13

• In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place.

  Liya Kebede

  Years, Together, World

  "The model of perfection". CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. June 11, 2007.

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• When the weather's good, there's no better place to be than the British countryside.

  Ross Kemp

  Weather, British, Countryside

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• If every decision would reflect our feelings as well as our reason, the world would be a better place to live.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Decision, Feelings, Would Be

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• My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  People, Parent, Trying

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• in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.

  Margaret Halsey

  Race, Long, Racism

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• 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

  Ideas, Two, Temptation

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• If we can move together as a species, I think that there is a possibility that we can make the world a better place.

  Dave Sitek

  Moving, Thinking, Together

  "TV on the Radio". Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. October 2, 2006.

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• It's all about trying to make the world and the universe a better place. I'm proud to be connected with it. I think we need that in our lives. We need ethical, heroic people trying to do the right thing to help others and to improve life on this planet and in the universe.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Helping Others, Thinking, People

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• I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for me.

  Anna Quindlen

  Teenager, Feminist, World

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I think we made huge positive changes and Thunder Bay is in a better place than it was four years ago.

  Keith Hobbs

  Thinking, Years, Four

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• Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Black And White, Men, Doubt

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Presidential, Intelligence

  John F. Kennedy's Speech at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, www.jfklibrary.org. June 14, 1956.

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• We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother

  Jane Goodall

  Inspiring, Choices, Use

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• Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Thank You, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

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• A sense that with the blessings that God bestowed upon this land, came the responsibility to make the world a better place.

  Marco Rubio

  Responsibility, Blessing, Land

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• Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil. Each believes that when he dies he is going to heaven. Each believes that if he could kill the other, his path to paradise in the next world would be even swifter. The delusional "next world" is welcome to both of them. This world would be a much better place without either of them.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Evil, Heaven

  "The Atheist". Interview with Gordy Slack, www.salon.com. April 30, 2005.

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• But the world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.

  Karl Rove

  Gone, World, Hussein

  "Karl Rove Suggests Stephen Colbert May Need 'Anger Management'". ABC News Interview, abcnews.go.com. March 24, 2013.

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• All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.

  Mitt Romney

  Love, Family, Mother

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• The world's a better place since I chose music.

  Henry Rollins

  World

  "Irony, but Not Always". www.nytimes.com. April 22, 1992.

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• Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Believe, Creativity

  Interview with Klaus Ottmann, www.jca-online.com. October 1986.

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• This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.

  Gary Johnson

  Country, Real, Marijuana

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• As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

  Steve Jobs

  Country, Kids, Views

  "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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• I’m not a bad person. I haven’t killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don’t kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?

  Gena Showalter

  Lying, People, Would Be

  Gena Showalter (2006). “Oh My Goth”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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  Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.

  Banksy

  Art, People, Graffiti

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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