World History Quotes - Page 16

• Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

  Jacques Chirac

  Hands, Long, Age

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

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• But as a philosopher said, one day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, after all the scientific and technological achievements, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

  Sargent Shriver

  God, Men, Fire

  "Transcript of Shriver's Acceptance Speech". www.nytimes.com. August 09, 1972.

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• All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

  Victor Cousin

  Cousin, War, Home

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• You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

  James A. Baldwin

  Pain, Thinking, Empathy

  "Doom and glory of knowing who you are". "LIFE" Magazine, Vol. 54, No. 21, (p. 89), May 24, 1963.

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• In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Gasoline Prices, Class

  Mitt Romney's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.npr.org. August 30, 2012.

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• The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Creation Of Man, World

  Karl Marx (2012). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.113, Courier Corporation

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• The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mean, Men, Done

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc”

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• The fact is that the New Deal did not work. It prolonged what might have been a troubling two-year downturn into a horrifying blow to world prosperity that ended up in a war that killed countless millions. It was one of the greatest acts of wreckage in world history.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  War, Blow, Years

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• In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing. Many jerks are made gloomy about it, for they think quantity buries them alive. That's just crazy. Numbers are very dangerous, but the main thing about them is that they humble your pride. And that's good.

  Saul Bellow

  Depressing, Crazy, Humble

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• ...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Imagination, Say Anything, World

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• TODD: The history of the world, my love -- LOVETT: Save a lot of graves, Do a lot of relatives favors! TODD: Is those below serving those up above! LOVETT: Ev'rybody shaves, So there should be plenty of flavors! TODD: How gratifying for once to know BOTH: That those above will serve those down below!

  Stephen Sondheim

  Flavor, World, Favors

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• By sight and observation and thought, with the help of the camera, and the addition of the date of the year, we can hold fast the history of the world.

  August Sander

  Sight, Years, Cameras

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• Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, War, Hands

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• They've been changing the cry from "global warming" to "climate change" because there's so little evidence there's actually any warming going on. I believe that as little as a decade from now, global warming will be recognized as one of the greatest swindles in world history. It has so little scientific basis, it can only rationally be considered a political scam.

  Doug Casey

  Believe, Political, Climate

  "Doug Casey on Global Warming". Interview with Louis James, www.caseyresearch.com. October 7, 2009.

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• The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.

  Helen Westley

  World, Ennui, Conquest

  "The Confessions of Helen Westley" by Djuna Barnes in New York Morning Telegraph Sunday Magazine, September 23, 1917.

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• We've had the most massive creation of wealth for people a lot younger than those who formerly got wealth in the history of the world. The world is full of young people who really want to get rich, and when I left school nobody thought it was a reasonable possibility.

  Charlie Munger

  School, People, World

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• America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Men, America, World

  The Oxford History of the American People ch. 2 (1965)

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• He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Punishment, Comfort, World

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

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• The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.

  William Hardy McNeill

  Wisdom, Islamic, Example

  "Keeping Together in Time". Book by William Hardy McNeill, Ch. 4: Religious Ceremonies, 1995.

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• I would probably never be able to do anything interesting or special like Edward, Alice and Jasper could do. Maybe I would just love Edward more than anyone in the history of the world had ever loved anyone else.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Interesting, Special, World

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.249, Hachette UK

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• The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form of a seed. It grew and flowered into a magnificent apple tree, which bore apples as bright as blood. -From Genesis: A Complete History of the World and the Known Universe, by Steven Horace, PhD, Harvard University

  Lauren Oliver

  Garden, Eden, Apples

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• Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replaced by unperfect knowledge of the featureless whole Like some pocket history of the world, so general As to constitute a sob or wail

  John Ashbery

  Mean, Mad, Pockets

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have gathered in rooms and talked. They talk of art and are passionately,almost feverishly, in earnest about it. They think it matters much more than it does.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Art, Thinking, Talking

  Sherwood Anderson (2015). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.135, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long as things were good, and in that moment when they could have been good again, was about the irrelevance of words. You feel what you feel, you act as you act, who in the history of the world has ever been convinced by a well-reasoned argument?

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Irrelevance, Differences, Long

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