Angelina Jolie Quotes

I (naively) thought university training would make you better in following what happens in the world.

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.

We live in such extreme times that I think we all have a responsibility to be aware of what's happening and talk about it.

Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.

We should be aware and constantly having conversations about the world because that's how you change it from the bigger standpoint rather than acutely trying to change things.

I'm not really a current events guy, sadly.

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.

The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.

I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news... if you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you're right.

I've always had a social awareness. My favorite channel on TV is BBC News 24. For a while, I had to have it on repeat in my house. I've always been interested in what's going on in the world.

That's something that I've always gotten: a sense of humanity, a sense of awareness of yourself and the world around you.

Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. It is the perfect vehicle for students. Consciousness-raising is pertinent for power, and be sure that power will not be abusively used, but used for building trust and goodwill domestically and internationally. Tomorrow's world is yours to build.

Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.

The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.

We can only begin to change the world around us when we are willing to become a conscious part of all that is changing.

I think what's happening in Hollywood is a direct reflection of what's happening in the world right now.

The rhythm of being an activist today involves a pretty simple rhythm. You have to open your eyes to the reality before you. You have to look and see.

I want to change awareness.

Recognizing that something is wrong is the first step toward changing the world.

I know the whole world is watching now. And I wish the world could see what I can see. Sometimes you have to get up really high to understand how small you really are. I'm going home now.

I found Donald Trump to be very attuned to what was going on around the world.

The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.

I think it's good that you test the reality that surrounds you in your neighbourhood with the reality as it is in other parts of the world; you come up with a better judgment. I'm not meaning that literally you can only do that and not go to school at all but in terms of enrichment of a personality I think it's a fabulous thing.

Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.

When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.