Center of the world Quote by Samuel P. Huntington

The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.

— Napoleon Hill

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it”

— Paulo Coelho

“What makes a civilization real to its inhabitants, in the end, is not just the splendid edifices at it centre, nor even the smooth…

— Niall Ferguson

“It's easy to allow the world to collapse down to our own stories. To see ourselves as the central figure in the only story…

— Shaun David Hutchinson

“World-history is the history of the great Cultures, and peoples are but the symbolic forms and vessels in which the men of these Cultures…

— Oswald Spengler

Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of…

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

— Aldous Huxley

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

— John Oliver Killens

Every place is the center of the world.

— Black Elk

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

— Walter Lippmann

It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization…

— Anonymous