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235 World History quotes by 197 unique authors

The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than liquor. — Milton R. Hunter
It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have… — Charles Darwin
The birth of Christ our Lord was more than an incident, it was an epoch in the history of the world... He came to teach… — Heber J. Grant
How does the richest country in the history of the world fail to pay its bills? — Rick Perry
The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower… — Charles Darwin
I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more… — Otto von Bismarck
This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron. — Otto von Bismarck
Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase. — Alexis de Tocqueville
What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself. — Alexis de Tocqueville
It is from the midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up and carries fertility to the whole world.… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat. — Karl Marx
The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand… — Queen Victoria
It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about… — Fred Ward
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter. — Hendrik Willem van Loon
Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own… — Antonio Gramsci
If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be… — Paul Thomas Anderson
Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have… — Josiah Strong
The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the world - is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest,… — John Keegan
We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea of… — Leszek Kolakowski
Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks? — Mahatma Gandhi
The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of… — Sivananda
Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose. — Charles Darwin
World history is tragic. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

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