World History Quotes - Page 2

• In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

  Theodore Bikel

  Song, Art, Play

  “Theodore Bikel, 'Fiddler on the Roof' Star, Dies at 91” by Duane Byrge , Alex Ben Block, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 21, 2015.

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• Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Speech at Mansion House, London, 10 Nov. 1942.

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• History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Badass

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• We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, History, Permit

  Speech to the Forth Worth Chamber of Commerce, delivered 22 November 1963

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• It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.

  Fred Ward

  Men, Talking, Listening

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• Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Courage, Creativity

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

  James A. Baldwin

  Wisdom, People, History

  "Justice at last?" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2005.

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• we are the ones we have been waiting for

  Alice Walker

  Change, Confidence, Life Changing

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.342, The New Press

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• The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory!

  Joseph Stalin

  Change, War, Fighting

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• In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.

  Ruth Benedict

  Race, Diversity, Brotherhood

  Ruth Benedict (1945). “Race: Science and Politics”, Viking Adult

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• Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

  Winston Churchill

  Strong, History, Justice

  Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.108, A&C Black

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• In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

  Lawrence Summers

  Car, Liberty, World

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• It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

  Gertrude Stein

  History, Doe, Soothing

  "Wars I Have Seen". Book by Gertrude Stein, 1945.

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• Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, was summoned into existence through language, through murmuring, recital, and kabbalistic chitchat -- was, literally, talked into life.

  Michael Chabon

  Rivers, World, Goats

  Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel”, p.119, Random House

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• The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Justice, Literature, World

  "The Open Society and Its Enemies". Book by Karl Popper, 1945.

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• Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater.

  Stacy Schiff

  Rome, Play, Ambitious

  "Interview with Stacy Schiff, author of 'Cleopatra'". Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. December 5, 2010.

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• But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  World, Moments, So Sad

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2006). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”, p.269, Penguin UK

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• Muslims naturally saw Christendom as their arch rival. One point that is really important to bear in mind, particularly in addressing an American audience, and that is that the Islamic world has a very strong sense of history. In the Muslim world, history is important and their knowledge of history is not always accurate but is very detailed. There is a strong historical sense in the Muslim world, a feeling for the history of Islam from the time of the Prophet until the present day.

  Bernard Lewis

  Strong, Islamic, Feelings

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• The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

  Samuel Butler

  Records, World, Weakness

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.145, The Floating Press

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• In the history of the world there have been lots of onces and lots of times, and every time has had a once upon it. Most people will tell you that the once upon a time happened in a land far, far away, but it really depends on where you are. The once upon a time may have been just outside your back door. It may have been beneath your very feet. It might not have been in a land at all but deep in the sea's belly or bobbing around on its back.

  N.D. Wilson

  Sea, Land, Feet

  N. D. Wilson (2008). “Leepike Ridge”, p.1, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Religious, Hate, Race

  Carter G. Woodson (2008). “Negro Makers of History”, p.20, Wildside Press LLC

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• You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery...

  Bill Maher

  Lucky, World, Born

  "Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home", 2003.

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• Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

  Cory Doctorow

  World, Firsts, First Time

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• Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at any time in the history of the world.

  Michael Chabon

  Writing, People, Fiction

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands”, p.147, Open Road Media

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