Quotes of: World-history Keyword

Espionage is the world's second oldest profession.

Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Brave New World

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

Robert Kiyosaki

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Alice Walker

The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.

Buenaventura Durruti

For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth.

Eric C. Anderson

That is a Medieval way of drawing history, in which they do not respect the law and want the rest of the world to respect the law. That's not possible.

Emir Kusturica

I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history.

Mohammed Morsi

I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.

Marianne Wiggins

Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent.

Wole Soyinka

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

Walt Whitman

For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

Kirstie Alley

Everyone lives in two worlds,” Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studied her letters. “There’s the real world, with all its annoying facts and rules. In the real world, there are things that are true and things that...

NOS4A2

Life is never static. Despite catastrophic tragedies, life has persisted in evolving new varieties of unimaginable forms. I find comfort in the narrative of evolutionary history.

Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God

History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made.

Janet Flanner's World: Uncollected Writings 1932-1975

What is a human but a choice maker? Choices are powerful. Choices change history. Choices change the world. Remember your power!

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world.

Dennis C. Blair

History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the im...

Frank Gaffney

When you are 'world building,' people will oftentimes judge how well you built your world. They want to know: Is the culture believable? Does it feel like it has a history? I try very hard to pay attention to details.

Marie Rutkoski

The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Never in human history had such a bold goal been adopted by the ent...

Muhammad Yunus