World History Quotes - Page 13

• Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn't have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.

  Barney Frank

  Party, People, Political

  "The Political Scene: Barney's Frank Opinions". Interview with Michael Guerriero, www.newyorker.com. December 9, 2011.

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• Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, World, Mass

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• Jesus Christ is the greatest man in the history of the world. And to me, he's the greatest person in the history of mankind and the universe. We can't prove it, I can't put it in a test tube or in an astronomical formula, but by faith I believe it because the Bible teaches it.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Believe, Men

  "Tony Snow Interviews Billy Graham". "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.deceptioninthechurch.com. January 2, 2000.

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• An investigation found the specific people who authorized the warrantless wiretapping of millions and millions of communications, which per count would have resulted in the longest sentences in world history, and our highest official simply demanded the investigation be halted. Who "can" be brought up on charges is immaterial when the rule of law is not respected. Laws are meant for you, not for them.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Law, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I remember seeing Airplane, and even Mel Brooks movies like History of the World Part I, and just really loving that style of movies that make fun of movies. I think it needs to be done. All of these movies are ripe for being poked at.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Fun, Airplane, Thinking

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• The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much so that he is not aware of it; enhanced Executive power to the point of reducing Congress to innocuity; and enabled the central government to bribe the states, once independent units, into subservience. No kingship in the history of the world ever exercised more power than our Presidency, or had more of the people's wealth at its disposal.

  Frank Chodorov

  Independent, Rights, Government

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.46, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.

  John Adams

  People, Democracy, Desire

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 6: Defence of the Constitution IV, Discourses on Davila”, p.43, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

  Jessamyn West

  Past, History, Imagination

  Jessamyn West (1966). “A Matter of Time”

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• We've not been assigned to hang out until He returns ”we've been given a message and a power that completely revolutionizes life. Why would anyone want to get up in the morning and not shape the course of world history?

  Bill Johnson

  Morning, Messages, Return

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• J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation.

  Brian Wilson

  Spiritual, Meditation, Musical

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• The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.

  Henry Miller

  History, World, Privileged

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• The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.

  Arthur Henderson

  War, Years, Civilization

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• Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember the 'Phil Gramm for President' campaign. I thought that was the worst thing in the history of the world, but Rick Perry was possibly worse.

  Gail Collins

  Texas, Presidential, Campaigns

  "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. June 04, 2012.

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• No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Country, Israel, People

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• The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Israel, Views, Heaven

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5014, Delphi Classics

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• In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Responsibility, Long

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

  Steve King

  Father, Government, Democracy

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• 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 the Upanishads.

  Sivananda

  Teaching, Sublime, Noble

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• Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.

  Charles Darwin

  Important, World, Firsts

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• Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.

  Ralph Bakshi

  World, Sweetheart, Cartoonist

  Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. December 06, 2000.

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• Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world.

  John Paul DeJoria

  World, Hairstylist

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• Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Ideas, People, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake.

  Walter Benjamin

  Race, Different, World

  "Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 1938–1940". Book edited by Marcus Bullock and Michael W. Jennings, 1996.

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• It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and the richest nation in the history of the world was talking about how to keep a budget.

  Walter Mosley

  Talking, Water, Pirate

  Walter Mosley (2010). “Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery”, p.115, Penguin

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• White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.

  Michael Kimmel

  Men, White Man, America

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