"It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity."

Society, Insecurity, Play, World

114

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity."

Exlpore more Society quotes

"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

T. F. Hodge, American Motivational Speaker

Society, Energy, People, World, Connection

"It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

Society, Pride, Want, Relationship, Values

"Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities " but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Society, Culture, Religion, Influence, Observation

"The black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated."

Darnell Lamont Walker, American Writer

Society, Prison, Solitude, Freedom, Irony

"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Society, Control, Earth, Land

"Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

Society, Independence, Nationality, Race

"If a media is not criticizing the government, then that media is not a media but just a clown of the government!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Society, Truth, Power, Regret, Wisdom

"We cannot help the way in which people speak of us . . ."

George Eliot, British Author

Society, Speech, Judgment, Perception, Behavior

"William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Society, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational, Power

"What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Society, Truth, Communication, Reality

Explore more quotes by Dag Hammarskjold

"Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness."

Friendship, Loneliness, Needs, Solitude

"Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning."

History, Destiny, Meaning, Mystery

"Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them."

God, Prayer

"The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision."

Decision-Making, Decision, Departure, Paradise, May

"The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have."

Life, Leisure

""Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."

Rights, Humanrights, Philosophy

"We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours."

Destiny,

"Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon."

Attention, May

"It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity."

Society, Insecurity, Play, World

"If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer."

Improvement, May