Quotes of: World-history Keyword

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

Frank Waters

No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have.

Huston Smith

Herbert Hoover versus Al Smith in 1928 was one of the dirtiest elections in American history.

Joseph Cummins

I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting.

James McAvoy

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

John McCarthy

The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic, you learned Irish history in school.

James Nesbitt

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

Joan Rivers

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.

Marty Meehan

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

Mao Zedong

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.

Rafael Palmeiro

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

Seth Grahame-Smith

Conflict with the United States is one of the overwhelming facts of Latin American history.

Stephen Kinzer

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

Anson Mount

Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

Jeremy Grantham

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

Sarah Vowell

George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.

Helen Thomas

How could the Christian Church, apparently quite willingly, accommodate this weird megalomaniac [Constantine] in it's theocratic system? Was there a conscious bargain? Which side benefited most form this unseemly marriage between church and state? Or...

A History of Christianity

The Northern powers are more like administrators, who manipulate other people’s history but produce none of their own. They are the stock-jobbers of history, lives are their units of exchange. Lives as they are lived, deaths as they are died, all t...

Against the Day

If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating mental illness as a genetically influenced disorder of brain chemistry--has been a smashing success. Freud's ...

A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac