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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• La historia será benévola conmigo, porque tengo la intención de escribirla.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirador, Positivo, Badass

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• Esto no es el final. Ni siquiera es el principio del fin. Pero es, tal vez, el final del principio.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspiración, Vida, Graduación

  Discurso en Mansion House, Londres, 10 de noviembre de 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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• somos los que hemos estado esperando

  Alice Walker

  Cambio, Confianza, Cambio de vida

  Alice Walker (2013). "El mundo ha cambiado: Conversaciones con Alice Walker", p.342, The New Press

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• Pocos tendrán la grandeza de torcer la historia misma; pero cada uno de nosotros puede trabajar para cambiar una pequeña porción de los acontecimientos, y en el total; de todos esos actos se escribirá la historia de esta generación.

  Robert Kennedy

  Cambio, Coraje, Creatividad

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). "Make Gentle the Life of the World: La visión de 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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• El Ejército y la Armada Rojos y todo el pueblo soviético deben luchar por cada centímetro de suelo soviético, luchar hasta la última gota de sangre por nuestras ciudades y pueblos... ¡Adelante, hacia la victoria!

  José 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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• Algún día, después de dominar los vientos, las olas, las mareas y la gravedad, aprovecharemos para Dios las energías del amor, y entonces, por segunda vez en la historia del mundo, el hombre habrá descubierto el fuego.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Amor, Inspiración, Vida

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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). "Aforismos"

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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

  Jesús, Nombres, Personas

  "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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• Esa es la historia del mundo. La historia de él está contada, la de ella no.

  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). "¿No era más verde la hierba? 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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