World History Quotes - Page 13

• The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

  Jacques Chirac

  Art, Europe, History

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Time is my greatest enemy.

  Evita Peron

  History, Enemy

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• That great dust-heap called 'history'.

  Augustine Birrell

  Dust, History

  Obiter Dicta "Carlyle" (1884) See Trotsky 2

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• Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Men, Views, Order

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• The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching back and back into ages that can but be surmised, is half-mystical in basis. The intoxication, at once so heady and so devout, is not the romantic melancholy engendered by broken towers and mouldered stones; it is the soaring of the imagination into the high empyrean where huge episodes are tangled with myths and dreams; it is the stunning impact of world history on its amazed heirs.

  Rose Macaulay

  Dream, Men, Past

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.), Roloff Beny, Constance Babington Smith (1977). “Roloff Beny interprets in photographs Pleasure of ruins”

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• What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an elite of power; that the men of the circles composing this elite, severally and collectively, now make such key decisions as are made; and that, given the enlargement and the centralization of the means of power now available, the decisions that they make and fail to make carry more consequences for more people than has ever been the case in the world history of mankind

  C. Wright Mills

  Mean, Men, Keys

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.28, Oxford University Press

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• The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world history means, however, to know human beings as they have been and always will be. There is a vast difference, which most people will never comprehend, between viewing future history as it will be and viewing it as one might like it to be. Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

  Oswald Spengler

  War, Mean, Differences

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• No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

  Amartya Sen

  Taken, Democracy, World

  Amartya Sen (2011). “The Idea of Justice”, p.343, Harvard University Press

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• Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can't make it worse.

  Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

  Government, Political, World

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• The reward of the young scientist is the emotional th
  rill of being the first person in the history of the world to see something or to understand something. Nothing can compare with that experience The reward of the old scientist is the sense of having seen a vague sketch grow into a masterly landscape.

  Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

  Emotional, World, Landscape

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• One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment.

  William O. Douglas

  History, Amendments, Court

  "The Court years, 1939-1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas‎". Book by William O. Douglas, 1980.

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• And yet, strange to say, now that this truth is recognized by most cultivated people — now that the beneficent working of the survival of the fittest has been so impressed on them that, much more than people in past times, they might be expected to hesitate before neutralizing its action — now more than ever before in the history of the world, are they doing all they can to further survival of the unfittest!

  Herbert Spencer

  People, Survival, World

  "The Man versus the State: Great Essays".

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• Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

  Christopher Columbus

  Light, Sea, History

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• This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Song, Blood, Iron

  Prussian House of Deputies, 28 January 1886 (used by Bismarck in the form Eisen und Blut 30 September 1862)

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• I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Play, Want, Matter

  Speech to the Reichstag, 19 February 1878, in Ludwig Hahn (ed.) 'Fürst Bismarck. Sein politisches Leben und Wirken' vol. 3 (1881) p. 90

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• 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 of Babel, the rainbow as a sign, etc., etc. and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos, or the beliefs of any barbarian.

  Charles Darwin

  Book, Tyrants, Rainbow

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• The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, History, Political

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• I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological , ethical, political and esthetic roots-that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Patriotic, Roots

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.37, Penguin

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• Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Civilization, World, Difficulty

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2004). “Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II”, p.280, Bantam Classics

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• What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Republican Government, United States, World

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2009). “Democracy in America: Volumes I & II”, p.754, The Floating Press

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• 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. From this foul drain pure gold flows forth.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Spring, Rivers, Gold

  Writing about Manchester in 'Voyage en Angleterre et en Irlande de 1835' 2 July

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• Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

  Herbert Hoover

  Party, History, Political

  1964 In Christian Science Monitor, 21 May.

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• Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Thinking, Suffering, Groups

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• Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Change, History, Historical

  'Hansard' 1 May 1865, col. 1246

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• I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.

  Frank Gehry

  Thinking, Culture, World

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