World History Quotes - Page 4

• The people who have more money and goods than any people in the history of the world spend most of their time worrying about not having enough.

  Jim Wallis

  People, Worry, World

  Jim Wallis (1981). “The call to conversion”, Harper San Francisco

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• We're the richest economy in the history of the world. For the majority of Americans not to get the benefits of this extraordinarily prosperous economy, there's something fundamentally wrong.

  Robert Reich

  Majority, Benefits, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We live in the midst of the greatest scientific civilization in the history of the world. But the greatest wisdom walking our streets is not in any laboratory scientist, but the wisdom of Jesus Christ.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Jesus, Civilization, World

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• We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. 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. There should be no indulgence in undue eulogy of the Negro. The case of the Negro is well taken care of when it is shown how he has far influenced the development of civilization.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Religious, Hate, Taken

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

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• For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

  Rachel Carson

  History, Historical, Environmental

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the world - is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion. Jesus belonged to the race of prophets. He saw with open eyes the mystery of the soul. One man was true to what is in you and me. He, as I think, is the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Eye, Men

  Address in Divinity College, americanliterature.com. July 15, 1838.

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• Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.

  Josiah Strong

  Country, Land, Population

  Josiah Strong (1891). “Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis”

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• If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Way To Live, World, Firsts

  "The Master". www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Important, World

  Charles Darwin, Julian Huxley (2006). “The Essential Darwin”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• The birth of Christ our Lord was more than an incident, it was an epoch in the history of the world... He came to teach us the character of God, and by example and precept pointed out the path which, if we walk in it, will lead us back into his presence. He came to break the bands of death with which man was bound, and made possible the resurrection by which the grave is robbed of its victory and death of its sting.

  Heber J. Grant

  Christmas, Character, Men

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• How does the richest country in the history of the world fail to pay its bills?

  Rick Perry

  Country, Doe, World

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• The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Party, Dirty, Kgb

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• The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

  Karl Marx

  Struggle, Class, World

  Letter to Joseph Weydemeyer, 5 Mar. 1852.

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• The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!

  Queen Victoria

  Country, Men, Hands

  On Gladstone's last appointment as Prime Minister, in a letter to Lord Lansdowne, 12 August 1892

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• The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Men, History, Records

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• Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality?

  Antonio Gramsci

  Work Out, Personality, Brain

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• We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

  Will Rogers

  Car, History, World

  "The First Good News of the 1928 Campaign! Mr. Rogers Says He Will Not Run For Anything". Daily Telegram #1355 (syndicated column). "Will Roger's Daily Telegrams, The Hoover Years, 1929-1931". Book edited by Steven Gragert and James Smallwood, 2008.

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• I do not believe that any man can adequately appreciate the world of to-day unless he has some knowledge of -- a little more than a slight knowledge, some feeling for and of -- the history of the world of the past.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Past, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people.

  James A. Baldwin

  Pain, Thinking, People

  "Doom and glory of knowing who you are". Jane Howard, Life Magazine, Volume 54, No. 21 (p. 89), May 24, 1963.

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• The most charming of theories holds that someone other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays -- that he was of too low a state, and of insufficient education. But where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?

  David Mamet

  Art, Powerful, Play

  David Mamet (2011). “True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor”, p.35, Vintage

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• The history of the world is like: He kills me, I kill him, only with different cosmetics and different castings. So in 2001, some fanatics killed some Americans, and now some Americans are killing some Iraqis. And in my childhood, some Nazis killed Jews. And now, some Jewish people and some Palestinians are killing each other.

  Woody Allen

  People, Childhood, Different

  "Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker". Interview with Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. June 20, 2005.

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• The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication" (a preposterous term) for breadth and depth of learning in the world history of art and thought... Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Overconcentration on any one point is a distortion. This is one of the primary reasons for the dullness and ineptitude of so much twentieth-criticism, as compared to nineteenth-century belles-lettres.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Numbers, Ignorant

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Camille Paglia, "Arion", Third Series, Volume 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller... whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness were arguably victories more important than those of Alexander the Great, because they have implications still for every living person.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Victory, Important, Overcoming

  "An Intimate History of Humanity". Book by Theodore Zeldin, 1994.

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• America is the greatest force for good in the history of the world.

  John McCain

  America, World, Force

  Second McCain, Obama debate, www.cnn.com. October 7, 2008.

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• Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who make no nuisance of themselves in the world.

  Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel

  Men, People, History

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