World History Quotes - Page 7

• Evil is not interesting. What is it, chopping off someone's head? We used to do that as kids, you know, you tear up paper dolls and stuff. I know everyone's done it in the history of the world, but maybe everybody was dumb and they were just looking for something interesting to do. What's really interesting and hard is being good.

  Toni Morrison

  Kids, Evil, Interesting

  Source: theharvardadvocate.com

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• Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.

  Toni Morrison

  Political, Important, Literature

  Source: theharvardadvocate.com

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• There hasn't been a military force like the United States of America in the history of the world.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Military, America, United States

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We're living through the greatest jobs theft in the history of the world. Our jobs have been stolen from us and we have people that don't know what they are doing, in particular our leadership.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, People, World

  Source: time.com

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• A massive new penal system has emerged in the past few decades - a penal system unprecedented in world history. It is a system driven almost entirely by race and class.

  Michelle Alexander

  Past, Race, Class

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• An Arab activist can take pride in the Arab heritage of mathematics and science or he can take pride in his religion, and there's pride to be taken in both. But one of them could be exploited much more easily and has been in the context of world conflict. And the other is very difficult to do on the grounds that science and literature and mathematics have been among the uniting factors in the history of the world.

  Amartya Sen

  Taken, Pride, Heritage

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Since God is the end of man, since he has created us to be perfect and happy in him, it is manifest that if the designs of creation have not here below been entirely frustrated, there should be found men who tend to their end in seeking and loving God. And nevertheless, because of human liberty, there should also be found other men who neglect God, their principle and their end, and yield to the seduction of created things. Such indeed is the spectacle which the history of the world unceasingly presents to us.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Men, Yield, Perfect

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• It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  War, History, Accomplishment

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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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• It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as
  naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Spring, Ambition, Passion

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.21, Fordham Univ Press

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• At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.

  Harry S. Truman

  Choices, Way, Alternatives

  The Truman Doctrine, delivered 12 March 1947 before a Joint Session of Congress

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