Quotes of: World-history Keyword

History is about winners, not about losers. History is about assessing distortions, not copying out truths. History has much to say about the way the powerful handle power, for power engenders records. History is about evidence, and evidence flagrant...

An Intelligent Person's Guide to History

Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.

Richard Flanagan

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

G. M. Trevelyan

On various occasions, especially in trying to think of western American history in the context of the worldwide history of colonialism, it has struck me that much of the mental behavior that we sometimes denounce as ethnocentrism and cultural insensi...

Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

Buchi Emecheta

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

Bill Gates

The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.

Bud Selig

The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anything is beyond the reach of the inquiring and scientific spear.

David Josiah Brewer

I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.

Frank Gehry

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Henry Ward Beecher

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

John Guare

The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Sax...

Josiah Strong

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

In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.

Roberto Benigni

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

William Hague

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Ernest Dimnet

Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.

Karyn Parsons

The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.

Ryan Tedder

I don't know anything about the history of music.

Sia Furler

There was so much about our past that I still didn't understand, and I wasn't one to tell the future. I could only tell the way the world worked. History was a tangled thing, people were resilient, and the one constant law of the world was that it wo...

Fiendish

If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen