Quotes of: World-history Keyword

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.

Ron Chernow

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of 'experts' all contradicting one another, all trying to seem more 'shocking' and 'in-depth' th...

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

The air felt different in my lungs. The world no longer looked the same. You change and then you change again. You become a dog, a bird, a plant that always leans to the left. Only now that my son was gone did I realize how much I'd been living for h...

The History of Love

All types of societies are limited by economic factors. Nineteenth century civilization alone was economic in a different and distinctive sense, for it chose to base itself in a motive rarely acknowledged as valid in history of human societies, and c...

Karl Polanyi

The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I ...

Stefan Molyneux

History is my passion. So I write what I love to read. I find that if I combine history with a strong, sensual romance, it is like a one-two punch. The reader doesn't want the history without the romance, and of course the heavier the history, the mo...

Virginia Henley

Pita: Do you have a girlfriend, Creasy? Creasy: What? Pita: Do you have a girlfriend? Creasy: No. What kind of question is that, anyway? You're supposed to be studying history, okay? Pita: It is history... Creasy history. Creasy: No, that's ancient h...

Man on Fire

Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no industrial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could recoil into the past.

The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy

The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing...

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them substance, given them life. And so we readers walk, and dream, and imagine, in the city where imagination ...

Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City

But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people. You can't understand why they do what they do. You just have to accept a little mystery, Ben. People are mysterious, the world is mysterious. You can...

Mission Flats

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

Karl Jaspers

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.

History of Friedrich II of Prussia

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

Reflections on Gender and Science

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Dwight D. Eisenhower

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

Doris Lessing

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

Michael Winner

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

Pope John Paul II

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

Yvette Clarke

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

Paul Valery