This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and…

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

— Otto von Bismarck

If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was…

— Edward Gibbon

The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

— Karl Marx

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

— Lawrence Summers

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human…

— Matthew Arnold

“Stalin is one of the most extraordinary figures in world history. He began as a small clerk, and he has never stopped being a…

— Adolf Hitler

“the population of Karachi increasing by 369 per cent between 1941 and 1961, possibly the fastest rate of growth ever registered for a city…

— Laurent Gayer

Don't forget that in the history of the world, there was a plebiscite, in which Christ and Barabbas were being judged, and the people…

— Augusto Pinochet

As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that…

— William Osler

Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.

— Ralph Bakshi

There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.

— Joseph Goebbels

The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.

— Henry A. Wallace

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

— Elizabeth Janeway

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains…

— James A. Garfield