World History Quotes
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World History Quotes & Sayings
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Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.
— Khaled Hosseini
Like almost every truly horrible thing that has ever happened in the history of our world, the end also began with a kiss.
— Dennis Sharpe
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.
— Assata Shakur
History shows that the devout Muslim fundamentalists are one of the most lethal threats the world has ever known.
— Hal Lindsey
His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives.
— Andrew Roberts
For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. There's nothing like America.
— Rudy Giuliani
The ancient writers were not merely convinced of Moses' existence: they saw him as one of the formative figures of world history.
— Paul Johnson
After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.
— Condoleezza Rice
your world will never be small if you love to read, because you can be anyone, anywhere, at any period in history. My
— Shauna Niequist
Lahore was a different world in its own; the busy life, the rich history, the colourful culture, and the unfamiliar faces
— Javaria Waseem
You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!
— James A. Baldwin
Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.
— Charles Spurgeon
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
— Lord Henry Wotton
The actions of a single person can change the course of the world and create history.
— Michael Scott
No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin.
— Kevin DeYoung
This is the best day in the history of the world, even though yesterday that seemed an impossibility.
— Jack Kent Cooke
Nothing about these times makes any sense. Nothing. Putting it to words only makes it sound too simple.
— Ralph Webster
You can't appreciate the world you live in and know if it's better or worse than previous generations unless you know your history.
— Chris Dietzel
There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
— Adam Hochschild
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
— Jon Meacham
I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.
— Marianne Wiggins
Every body has role to play in the history of the world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
— Thomas Sowell
There are two kind of people in the world those who wish to be remembered, and those who are always remembered.
— Kartik Mehta
Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.
— Samuel P. Huntington
The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.
— Francois Fenelon
The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
— Fidel Castro
Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.
— Tony Judt
Nothing can ever fix nature' not even all monies in the world and money rules, are never worthy following.
— Auliq Ice
Fashion is a part of the world and part of history. It's not a meaningless swirl of meaningless clothes. They (clothes) reflect the times.
— Valerie Steele
Is equally young and foolish in the wide lens of history, and the arrogant denial of this is what unraveled the world.
— Isaac Marion
The world's oldest university, University of Karaouin, was established by a Muslim woman in Fez, Morocco in 859
— Firas Alkhateeb
about everything, about the whole history of the world and all its racism and the unfairness of all of it.
— Nicola Yoon
If reason ruled the world would history even exist?
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
You have a one of a kind gift to offer this world, and you are unique in the entire history of creation.
— Wayne Dyer
At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution,
— James F. Cooper
In my wildest, most indulgent dreams, we only hear about sexual assault & abuse in history books.
— Lisa Factora-Borchers
The Youngest World Heavyweight Champion in History!
— Randy Orton
The forming of the five senses is a labour of the entire history of the world down to the present
— Karl Marx
There have been more people saved in the past twenty, thirty, or forty years around the world than at any other time in recorded church history.
— Michael Brown
Don't carry the world around or your history around like a burden. In fact, don't carry it around at all. One step at a time.
— Art Hochberg
All history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!
— Clare Boothe Luce
Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history.
— Garry Kasparov
I can't imagine anybody who has spoken to more, or presented more non-famous people on television in the history of the world.
— Jerry Springer
The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.
— Nathan Wolfe
No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.
— John Brown Gordon
What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.
— Ernest Bevin
The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
— Friedrich Schiller
This city is like no other city in the world. It is brilliant but it is bloated, and I've never called it home
— Jessie Burton
In Britain, these Jewish refugees were greeted with a mixture of grudging acceptance by some and open hostility by others.
— Thomas Harding
The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers.
— Herbert Hoover
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out.
— Bertrand Russell
Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world.
— John Paul DeJoria
In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.
— Jeanette Winterson
India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
— Gary Weiss
One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.
— Christopher Caldwell
That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.
— Dolores Huerta
The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.
— Harry S. Truman
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
— Thomas Carlyle
Civilization - a word that simply means "living in cities ... "Excerpt From: Standage, Tom. "A History of the World In 6 Glasses. — Tom Standage
The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
— Nathaniel Branden
We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.
— Alexander MacLaren
What makes you so arrogant to think that Christ's Atonement is for everyone else in the history of the world except you?
— Carla Kelly
America is the world's top war-master; the most sophisticated killer-culture in history.
— Bryant McGill
Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.
— Charles Darwin
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
— Stephen Ambrose
We understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.
— Paulo Coelho
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
— Alice Walker
The ascension of Jesus was the supreme political event of world history. He ascended not so much
— R.C. Sproul
Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The world is round.
— Cristoforo Colombo
Nostalgia is the intimate refuge of every man and every woman in a world seemingly gone mad.
— John Larkins
I think Pussy Riot is amazing. I'm honored that they were inspired by riot grrl, and obviously they're making history around the world.
— Corin Tucker
One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes.
— Stephen Kinzer
Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.
— Kirstie Alley
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
— Thomas Paine