The earth does not need new continents, but new men.

The earth does not want new continents, but new men.

The Earth does not want new continents, but new men.

Ce ne sont pas de nouveaux continents qu'il faut à la terre, mais de nouveaux hommes!

The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.

The Earth needs rebels!

Bring me men to match my mountains,
Bring me men to match my plains,
Men with empires in their purpose,
And new eras in their brains.

The Earth is not just an ordinary planet! One can count, there, 111 kings (not forgetting, to be sure, the Negro kings among them), 7000 geographers, 900,000 businessmen, 7,500,000 tipplers, 311,000,000 conceited men — that is to say, about 2,000,000,000 grown-ups.

The world does not need any more white saviours.
As I’ve said before, this just perpetuates tired and unhelpful stereotypes. Let’s instead promote voices from across the continent of Africa and have serious debate.

Men go and come, but earth abides.

They don't need me in New York. I'm the New England man. I'm vital in New England.

We do not want new orders. What the world wants is an old order of 2,000 years ago – the order of the man of Galilee.

Men of genius are made not by new ideas, but by an idea which possesses them, namely, that what has been said has not yet been sufficiently said.

The world will not be saved by old minds with new programs. If the world is saved, it will be saved by new minds—with no programs.