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

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Badass

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort-“happiness.” He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering.

  Oswald Spengler

  Eye, Men, Suffering

  Oswald Spengler (1967). “Aphorisms”

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• Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. There always will be ... because the great mass of men are made by nature to be slaves, they are unfit to control themselves, and for their own good need masters.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Atheism, Needs

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “Christmas Holiday”, p.228, Random House

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• Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.

  Gore Vidal

  Jesus, Names, People

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

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• If Providence had not guided us I would often never have found these dizzy paths.  Thus, it is that we National Socialists have in the depths of our hearts our faith.  No man can fashion world history or the history of peoples unless upon his purpose and his powers there rests the blessing of this Providence.

  Adolf Hitler

  Fashion, Heart, Men

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• That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.

  Dolores Huerta

  History, Stories, World

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• I have always preferred the company of older people. No one in the history of the world has had less interest in the young than I do. I am not interested in what young people are thinking. They're thinking less than old people, of course. I mean, what could they be thinking? And what are they doing? They're doing the same stupid things you did.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Stupid, Mean, Thinking

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• If a quick glance back over world history shows us anything, it shows us that war was one of our most universal joys from our earliest beginnings, savored at every possible opportunity and even some quite incomprehensible ones.

  Barbara Holland

  War, Opportunity, Joy

  Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

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• To live without history is to live like an infant, constantly amazed and challenged by a strange and unnamed world.

  Joan Nestle

  History, World, Strange

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• Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  Men, Order, World

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• Americans took a great deal too much credit for creating wealth, when most of the time they had really just been living off natural bounty unprecedented in the history of the world.

  Jane Smiley

  Creating, Too Much, United States

  Jane Smiley (2017). “Moo”, p.194, Pan Macmillan

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• Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Gunpowder, Different, World

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• the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for kings on the theory that they should live surrounded by the finest stuff. The Mall of America is built on the premise that we should all be able to afford this stuff. It may be a shallow culture, but it's by-God democratic. Sneer if you dare; this is something new in world history.

  Molly Ivins

  Kings, Shopping, Pyramids

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.94, Vintage

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• Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Jesus, Discovery

  "Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage". Book by Marianne Williamson (Part I "Thoughts", Chapter 2 "The Luminous Mind", p. 29), November 1994.

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• If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Writing, Government, Views

  Elizabeth Janeway (1974). “Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening”, New York : Morrow, 1974, 1975 printing.

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