Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Abraham Lincoln

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya Angelou

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Confucius

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar Wilde

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar Wilde

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
Oscar Wilde

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Oscar Wilde

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Oscar Wilde

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Oscar Wilde

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar Wilde

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar Wilde

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Oscar Wilde