„Against all the chains of facts I must have long arguments to bring; and the world's chaos requires an interpretation equally terrible.“

„One has to stress once again, that the mechanical world view and psychophysical interpretation accompanying it are based not on the instructions of the philosophizing mind, but on the clear and accurate facts discovered by experiment and observation; and in the cases of non-correspondence (very rare, fortunately) between the requirements of the mind and the facts, reason must adjust to the facts, and not vice versa.“

—  Yakov Frenkel Russian physicist 1894 - 1952

as quoted [Viktor Yakovlevich Frenkel, Yakov Ilich Frenkel: his work, life, and letters, Birkhäuser, 1996, 3764327413, 25-26]

„I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.“

—  Umberto Eco, buch Das Foucaultsche Pendel

Quelle: Foucault's Pendulum

„God is not a basis for interpreting the world, but the fact which really transforms it.“

—  Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt German theologian 1928 - 2002

"Socialism in the Theology of Karl Barth"

„Do we have all the hatred and all the aversion for the world which Our Lord requires, and which his example must inspire in us?“

—  Louis Tronson French Roman Catholic priest 1622 - 1700

Avons-nous pour le monde toute la haine et toute l'aversion que Notre Seigneur demande, et que nous doit inspirer son exemple?
Examens particuliers sur divers sujets, p. 321 http://books.google.com/books?id=esY9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA321 as translated by Mary Ilford in The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1968), p. 116
Examens particuliers sur divers sujets [Examination of Conscience upon Special Subjects] (1690)

„The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air — it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right.“

—  Henry George, buch Fortschritt und Armut

Book VII, Ch. 1
Progress and Poverty (1879)

„All this world confusion and chaos was inevitable and no one is to blame.“

—  Meher Baba Indian mystic 1894 - 1969

The Universal Message (1958)
Kontext: All this world confusion and chaos was inevitable and no one is to blame. What had to happen has happened; and what has to happen will happen. There was and is no way out except through my coming in your midst. I had to come, and I have come. I am the Ancient One.

„Any church that imprisons a man because he has used an argument against its creed, will simply convince the world that it cannot answer the argument.“

—  Robert G. Ingersoll Union United States Army officer 1833 - 1899

The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)

„I really believe that there are going to be a lot of arguments to make against him that we can look forward to, I’m not going to spill the beans right now. But, suffice it to say that there are many arguments that we can use against him. But, one argument that I am uniquely qualified to bring, because of my service as Secretary of State is what his presidency would mean to our country and our standing in the world. I am already receiving messages from leaders — I’m having foreign leaders ask if they can endorse me to stop Donald Trump.“

—  Hillary Clinton American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady 1947

13 March 2016 http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2016/03/13/full-rush-transcript-hillary-clinton-partcnn-tv-one-democratic-presidential-town-hall/
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016)

„Now, one of the great facts which underlie the whole possibility of a Path of Human Perfecting, that I must take for granted throughout the lectures — for to deal with it as a matter for argument would lead us far away from our subject — one of the fundamental facts in Nature, is the fact of reincarnation. That means the gradual growth of man through many lives, through many experiences of the physical world, of the intermediate world, and also of the world called heaven. Evolution would be too short to enable a man to grow from imperfection to perfection, unless he had many opportunities, a long, long road to lead him upward.“

—  Annie Besant British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator 1847 - 1933

Quelle: Initiation, The Perfecting of Man (1923)

„A saint does not dissolve the chaos; if he did the world would have changed long ago. I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. It is a kind of balance that is his glory.“

—  Leonard Cohen, buch Beautiful Losers

Beautiful Losers (1966)
Kontext: What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence. A saint does not dissolve the chaos; if he did the world would have changed long ago. I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. It is a kind of balance that is his glory. He rides the drifts like an escaped ski. His course is the caress of the hill. His track is a drawing of the snow in a moment of its particular arrangement with wind and rock. Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape. His house is dangerous and finite, but he is at home in the world. He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.

„The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.“

—  Karl Marx, buch Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

Section 4, paragraph 11 (last paragraph)
Variant translation: Workers of the world, unite!
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
Variante: The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!
Quelle: The Communist Manifesto
Kontext: The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!

„I am prepared to concede without further argument that all the theoretical constructions, including geometry, which are used in the various branches of physics are only imperfect instruments to enable the world of empirical fact to be reconstructed in our minds.“

—  Richard von Mises Austrian physicist and mathematician 1883 - 1953

First Lecture, The Definition of Probability, p. 8
Probability, Statistics And Truth - Second Revised English Edition - (1957)

„To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.“

—  William Faulkner American writer 1897 - 1962

„The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.“

—  Edwin Howard Armstrong American electrical engineer and inventor 1890 - 1954

As quoted in the The Tesla Museum exhibition in Belgrade, and by the Tesla Memorial Society of New York http://www.teslasociety.com/tmuseum.htm

„I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.“

—  Pierre Joseph Proudhon French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and socialist 1809 - 1865

Quelle: What is Property? (1840), Ch. I: "Method Pursued in this Work. The Idea of a Revolution"

„…there is a sum of evil equal to the sum of good, the continuing equilibrium of the world requires that there be as many good people as wicked people…“

—  Marquis de Sade French novelist and philosopher 1740 - 1814

Justine or The Misfortunes of Virtue (1787)

„Everyone can see the arguments against the English-speaking peoples becoming the policemen of the world.“

—  Winston S. Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874 - 1965

To End War, Collier's, 29 June 1935
Reproduced in The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill, Vol I, Churchill at War, Centenary Edition (1976), Library of Imperial History, p. 351-2. ISBN 0903988429
The 1930s

„The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world — all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them.“

—  Muhammad Yunus Bangladeshi banker, economist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 1940

"Eliminating Poverty Through Market-Based Social Entrepreneurship" in Global Urban Development Magazine (May 2005) http://www.globalurban.org/Issue1PIMag05/Yunus%20article.htm

„We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.“

—  Stephen R. Covey, buch The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Quelle: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change