World History Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• 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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• Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us.

  Patrick Marber

  Thank God, Bangs, World

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• As populations crowd toward the ocean's edge and the sea encroaches menacingly toward the land, John R. Gillis looks at the history of the world from a fresh perspective and enables readers to see it in a new light. That he has managed to do so in a single conceptual work is nothing short of astounding.

  Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

  Ocean, Light, Sea

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• We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world... We adjust to change.

  Dan Rather

  Country, America, People

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• America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. There's nothing like America.

  Rudy Giuliani

  America, World, Nations

  "Giuliani: New York's 'Finest Hour'". Interview with Barbara Walters, abcnews.go.com. September 17.

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• This is the best day in the history of the world, even though yesterday that seemed an impossibility.

  Jack Kent Cooke

  Attitude, Yesterday, World

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• Never, in the history of the world, has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect.

  Napoleon Hill

  Opportunity, Trying, World

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.52, Penguin

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• Not a single other creature in all the history of the world has been just as ourselves. Not another will be like us.

  William Soutar

  World, Creatures, Has Beens

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• 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

  Alcohol, Devil, Tools

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Life, Romance, Risk

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Collected Works”

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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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