World History Quotes

235 World History quotes by 197 unique authors

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. — James A. Baldwin
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. — Ambrose Bierce
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. — Samuel Butler
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. — Thomas Carlyle
The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the… — Jimmy Carter
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history… — Spike Lee
Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any… — Og Mandino
Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of… — Lewis H. Lapham
What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that… — John Bartholomew Gough
It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship of God, and… — Joseph Story
They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at… — Eugene V. Debs
Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing… — Winston Churchill
The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves — Swami Vivekananda
You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time,… — Hermann Hesse
For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this… — Aldous Huxley
In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have… — Ruth Benedict
All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain… — Victor Cousin
But as a philosopher said, one day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, after all the scientific and technological achievements, we… — Sargent Shriver

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