The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as…

The reflected world is the conquest of calm.

— Gaston Bachelard

There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest…

— Simone Weil

“European imperialism was entirely unlike all other imperial projects in history. Previous seekers of empire tended to assume that they already understood the world.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In a sense, New World conquest was about men seeking a way around one of life's basic rules - that human beings have to…

— Kim MacQuarrie

“The world is a conquest but also a great responsibility. Who avoids responsibility does not live the world but lives with himself, selfishly.”

— Claudio Dunca

The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.

— Henry Miller

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within.…

— Swami Vivekananda

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves

— Swami Vivekananda

...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical a fact…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

How can knowing more be a bad thing? You can only look each other in the eye when you know the history the world…

— Andi Oliver

The history of the world - by which, of course, we mean Europe - is a record of intertribal lacerations, of ethnic cleansings.

— Derek Walcott

“My novel is about the history of the world, told from the point of view of a column of stone.”

— Kit Reed

“What I have always loved about the history of the world is that it is true. That all the extraordinary things we read were…

— Gombrich Ernst H