But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
You know, throughout the world, throughout history, when countries get rich, they stop having kids. — Todd G. Buchholz Copy Share Image
It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world… — Dmitri Volkogonov Copy Share Image
Which is more important in world history: The Taliban or the fall of the Soviet Empire? A few over-exited Islamists or the… — Zbignew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Don't forget that in the history of the world, there was a plebiscite, in which Christ and Barabbas were being judged, and… — Augusto Pinochet Copy Share Image
The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Protest to be effective, must be followed by resolute action and at this crisis in world history when materialistic energy aims at… — Vida Goldstein Copy Share Image
The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and named… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“More specific material relating to the bourgeois state will be found in subsequent volumes. This approach is of a piece with Marx’s.… — Hal Draper Copy Share Image
“He is not just nice, he is brilliant. He is the smartest man who ever lived. He is now supervising the entire… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word.… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
“For years, the suspicion that Mr. Putin has a secret fortune has intrigued scholars, industry analysts, opposition figures, journalists and intelligence agencies… — Peter Baker Copy Share Image
The history of the world for the past several centuries and current events at home and abroad confirm the existence of such… — Benjamin H. Freedman Copy Share Image
“There is more going on, then, than the clumsy interventions of the west in Iraq and Afghanistan and the use of pressure… — Peter Frankopan Copy Share Image
We are recipients of God's choicest blessings. We enjoy an abundance of material things beyond that enjoyed by any other nation in… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Ever since Hegel, world history, in contrast to historia , seems to be precisely what one has not seen and experienced, inquired… — Karl Löwith Copy Share Image
If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Whites have been the most subsidized group in the history of the United States and maybe the history of the world, while… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
It is from the midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up and carries fertility to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
To live without history is to live like an infant, constantly amazed and challenged by a strange and unnamed world. — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
In the history of the hip hop world...there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
