World History Quotes
235 World History quotes by 197 unique authors
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
— Neil Armstrong
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
— James A. Baldwin
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
— Samuel Butler
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
— Thomas Carlyle
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves
— Swami Vivekananda
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These World History Quotes
197 authors contributed a total of 235 World History Quotes, led by these top contributors: