Quotes of: World-history Keyword

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

Charles Krauthammer

By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.

Christoph Waltz

Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.

Dave Brat

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

Erik Erikson

History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'

Eduardo Galeano

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Francis Bacon

It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.

George W. S. Trow

I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.

Mark E. Smith

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

Peabo Bryson

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

Phillip Noyce

It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.

Rodney King

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

James Buchan

Truly, was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.

Ernst W. Mayr

Lamont: Just remember, in here, you the nigga. Not me.

American History X

The alchemist saw the union of opposites under the symbol of the tree, and it is therefore not surprising that the unconscious of present-day man, who no longer feels at home in his world and can base his existence neither on the past that is no more...

Psychological Types

Richardson, however, remains a vital figure in the history of the novel, and of ideology. He initiates a discourse on sexual roles which, in all its ambiguities, is as relevant to today's society as it was in the mid-eighteenth century and which fill...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history. There's no question that various victors throughout history have flat out lied about certain events or written th...

David S. Goyer

Sometimes, remembering hurts too much.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

War is sweet to those who have never fought.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

We have come to Earth in this great season in the long history of mankind. It is a marvelous age - the best of all.

Gordon B. Hinckley