World History Quotes - Page 12

• Americans took a great deal too much credit for creating wealth, when most of the time they had really just been living off natural bounty unprecedented in the history of the world.

  Jane Smiley

  Creating, Too Much, United States

  Jane Smiley (2017). “Moo”, p.194, Pan Macmillan

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• Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  Men, Order, World

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• To live without history is to live like an infant, constantly amazed and challenged by a strange and unnamed world.

  Joan Nestle

  History, World, Strange

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• That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.

  Dolores Huerta

  History, Stories, World

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• How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others, it is put for the light of the world.

  Thomas Paine

  Ignorance, Light, History

  Thomas Paine (1848). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.108

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• Discussions without end have been devoted to the subject of peace, and the efforts to obtain a general and lasting peace have been frequent through many years of world history.

  George C. Marshall

  Years, Effort, World

  George C. Marshall's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1953.

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• The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort-“happiness.” He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering.

  Oswald Spengler

  Eye, Men, Suffering

  Oswald Spengler (1967). “Aphorisms”

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• The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Years, Three, Half

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• The president, who finds so much to complain about in other areas of the world, apparently saw nothing wrong in recognizing a Communist regime that has killed more people in its short history of control over the teeming millions of that great country than any other collection of dictators or tyrants in the history of the world.

  Barry Goldwater

  Country, War, Tyrants

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• In the history of the hip hop world...there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One female rapper to sell more albums than me in the first week.

  Nicki Minaj

  Rapper, Hip Hop, World

  Source: observer.com

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• the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to the total history of the world. The past is thus as real as the present.

  C. D. Broad

  Real, Future, Past

  John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart, C. D. Broad (1988). “The Nature of Existence:”, p.23, CUP Archive

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• The vast majority of the peoples of the world are against war and against aggression. If they make their wishes known and effective, war can be stopped. It all depends on whether they are willing to make the effort necessary for the purpose. For, that it will require an effort, no one who considers the history of the world on these subjects can doubt.

  Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

  War, Effort, Doubt

  "The Future of Civilization". Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. June 1, 1938.

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• I'm a Christian. I believe that greatness has to do with the quality of love shown to the least of thy brethren and the quality of service to those who are catching hell. When you look at it in that sense, I'd say America has had great moments, but I wouldn't call it a great nation. I don't think there have been any great nations in the history of the world, because in every nation you find poor people being subjugated. So, I see the term "great nation" as a contradiction, as an oxymoron.

  Cornel West

  Christian, Believe, Greatness

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• The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Happiness, Theatre, World

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• God love the car. It has shown the naked heart that lives in all of us. Man invented the car but the car -- out of pure malevolence no doubt -- changed the history of the world by reinventing man.

  Harry Crews

  Heart, Men, Car

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• History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

  Albert Camus

  Eye, History, Finals

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.289, Vintage

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• The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Bible, Civilization, History

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.97

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• More material progress has been made during the past one hundred and fifty years under the American system of business enterprise than during all the preceding centuries in world history. This record of achievement is a challenge to those who would radically change that system.

  Karl Taylor Compton

  Past, Years, America

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• The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.

  Franz Kafka

  Love, Men, Doe

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• I look at the natural geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept and written in a changing dialect; of this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume, only here and there a short chapter has been preserved; and of each page, only here and there a few lines.

  Charles Darwin

  Country, Science, Two

  Charles Darwin, Sir Francis Darwin (1987). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 10: The Foundations of The Origin of the Species: Two Essays Written in 1842 and 1844”, p.21, NYU Press

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• The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Technology, California, Valleys

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• There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

  Fernand Braudel

  Ignorance, History, Silence

  Fernand Braudel (1982). “Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The perspective of the world”, p.18, Univ of California Press

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• It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  People, History, Luck

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• Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What we call "history" by no means represents the sum total of all significant deeds.... World historyonly comprises that tiny lighted sector which chanced to be placed in the spotlight by poetic or scholarly depictions.

  Stefan Zweig

  Mean, History, Done

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• Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for years dependency on one individual:Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, because it loves the elemental human being who grows to resemble it, the intangible element. Sometimes, and these are the most astonishing moments in world history, the thread of fate falls into the hands of a complete nobody but only for a twitching minute.

  Stefan Zweig

  Leadership, Powerful, Fall

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