Famous quotes containing the words world, combined and/or events:
“It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“You do not become a “dissident” just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)
“Just as a mirror may be used to reflect images, so ancient events may be used to understand the present.”
—Chinese proverb.