World History Quotes

World History Quote of the day

Dunkirk has fallen... with it has ended the greatest battle of world history. Soldiers! My confidence in you knew no bounds. You have not disappointed me.

For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

Theatre is not supposed to represent psychology but passions, which is totally different. Its role is to represent the soul's different emotional states, and those of the mind, the world history.

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.

World history is made by minorities when this minority of number embodies the majority of will and determination.

[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.

America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. There's nothing like America.

It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world history as Lenin.

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.

The major force in world history is sheer dumbness.

India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.

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.

It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.

To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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

If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.

Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance.

Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world.

Majority doesn't rule. One person can change the history of the world.

You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.

For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.

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.

Discussions without end have been devoted to the subject of peace, and the efforts to obtain a general and lasting peace have been frequent through many years of world history.

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.

World history is tragic.

Not a single other creature in all the history of the world has been just as ourselves. Not another will be like us.

I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical a fact as the rise and fall of Rome.

The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me.

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.

The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

Berlin is one of my favorite cities in the world. I feel like the energy is very youthful. It has such an important history, including its recent history of unification.

The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.

Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history.

There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.

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.

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.

You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery...

'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

Whatever you do today, impacts your historicity.