“In its quest to control an unruly world, the Pentagon — acting in the name of the American people — slices and dices that world into smaller and smaller segments, while neglecting to assess the actual costs and benefits of the persistent meddling that it terms engagement.”

“Smaller World:
I know he's not really gone, she said, but the world still feels smaller to me today.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

“The real world is much smaller than the imaginary”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is.”

Daniel Handler (1970) American novelist, children's writer, creator of Lemony Snicket

“I think it possible that Marxism was the first attempt, for our time, outside the formal religions, at a world-mind, a world-ethic. It went wrong, could not prevent itself from dividing and subdividing, like all the other religions, into smaller and smaller chapels, sects, and creeds. But it was an attempt.”

Doris Lessing book The Golden Notebook

“Are people happier with a smaller range of experiences?”

Rob Payne (1973) Canadian writer

“While people are engaged in creating a totally different world, they always form vivid images of the preceding world.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

“The peace-keeping machinery of the United Nations cannot work without the help of the smaller nations, nations whose forces threaten no one and whose forces can thus help create a world in which no nation is threatened. Great powers have their responsibilities and their burdens, but the smaller nations of the world must fulfill their obligations as well.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

“The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.”

Raymond E. Feist book Krondor: The Betrayal

“The world continues to dissolve
It’s sad how we just keep devolving
And the smaller it all goes
All the stranger it’s becoming”

Dhani Harrison (1978) English musician