„What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.“

„Do you know what I really need?
I need love love love love love, yeah!“

—  Kate Bush British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer 1958

Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985)

„The more I reflect on the current world developments, the more I become convinced that the world needs perestroika no less than the Soviet Union needs it.“

—  Mikhail Gorbachev General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1931

Nobel Address (1991)

„I agree with Paul that love is more important than faith and hope; but so are honesty, integrity, and moral courage. The world needs less faith and more love and nobility.“

—  Walter Kaufmann American philosopher 1921 - 1980

Preface
From Shakespeare to Existentialism (1959)

„Is the world so unbearable? No! What we need is only a little more love for the world.“

—  Sri Chinmoy Indian writer and guru 1931 - 2007

#4386, Part 5
Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)

„After the fall of communism, everybody in the world agreed that socialism was a failure. Everybody in the world, more or less, agreed that capitalism was a success. And every capitalist country in the world apparently deduced from that what the West needed was more socialism.“

—  Milton Friedman American economist, statistician, and writer 1912 - 2006

Milton Friedman: The Rise of Socialism is Absurd and There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKhfR8WC4Eo, Grand opening speech at Cato Institutes’ headquarters in Washington, D.C. (May 1993)

„Less hate and greed
Is what we need
And more of service true;
More men to love
The flag above
And keep it first in view.Less boast and brag
About the flag,
More faith in what it means;
More heads erect,
More self-respect,
Less talk of war machines.“

—  Edgar Guest American writer 1881 - 1959

Our Duty to Our Flag, stanzas 1-2, p. 59.
A Heap o' Livin' (1916)

„He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.“

—  Ann Brashares American children's writer 1967

„The less our sons our trusted, the less women are able to really love them, and the more women feel entitled to use them as wallets.“

—  Warren Farrell author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate 1943

Fonte: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 98.

„What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
It's the only thing that there's just too little of.
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No not just for some but for everyone.“

—  Jackie DeShannon American singer-songwriter 1941

"What the World Needs Now is Love" (1965); this song was actually written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and offered to other singers who initially passed it up. It became DeShannon's first number one hit.
Misattributed

„What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
It's the only thing that there's just too little of.
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No not just for some but for everyone.“

—  Hal David American lyricist 1921 - 2012

Song What the World Needs Now is Love (1965)

„He hated to leave, but he loved his work. He was a man, and men needed to work. More sexism! More masculine tunnel vision! More need for gender-sensitivity workshops!“

—  Sherman Alexie Native American author and filmmaker 1966

Ten Little Indians (2003)

„No one in this world is pure and perfect. If you avoid people for their mistakes, you will be alone in this world. So judge less and love more.“

—  Ralph Smart

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„God deserves more love than the world gives him. Men, too, need more love than they receive from the world. Our community wants to take her place where these two needs meet.“

—  Hans Urs Von Balthasar Swedish Catholic theologian 1905 - 1988

Our Task: A Report and a Plan (1984)

„Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.“

—  Jim Butcher, livro Vignette

„We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.“

—  Jean Baudrillard, livro Simulacra and Simulation

Fonte: Simulacra and Simulation

„Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.“

—  B.K.S. Iyengar Indian yoga teacher and scholar 1918 - 2014

Fonte: Light on Life

„[It].... is a real declaration of love toward art. Abstraction from this world more as a game, less as a failure of the earthly. Somewhere in between. The man in love no longer drinks and eats..“

—  Paul Klee German Swiss painter 1879 - 1940

Diary entry (1912), # 922; as quoted by Francesco Mazzaferro, in 'The Diaries of Paul Klee Part Four', : Klee as an Expressionist and Constructivist Painter http://letteraturaartistica.blogspot.nl/2015/05/paul-klee-ev27.html
1911 - 1914

„What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.“

—  Oscar Levant American comedian, composer, pianist and actor 1906 - 1972

As quoted in On the 8th Day — God Laughed (1995) by Gene Perret, p. 95.

„Love is what makes sex more than masturbation. If there is no love even if you are really with a partner you masturbate with a partner.“

—  Slavoj Žižek Slovene philosopher 1949

Interview in HARDtalk, BBC World Service (12 January 2010)