World Quotes

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

~ Bill Gates

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

~ Thomas Carlyle

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

~ Robert Frost

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

~ Joseph Conrad

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.

~ Aung San Suu Kyi

It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.

~ Fred Ward

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.

~ John Perkins

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

~ Alice Walker

World history is a court of judgment.

~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.

~ David Attenborough

Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.

~ Bill Bryson

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

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

~ Chinua Achebe

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.

~ Pope John Paul Ii

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-Saxon is being schooled.

~ Josiah Strong

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

~ Oscar De La Renta

Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional skateboarding league in the world, with the biggest prize money in history.

~ Rob Dyrdek

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

~ Leopold Von Ranke

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

~ Salman Rushdie

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

~ François Mitterrand

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

~ Woodrow Wilson

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

~ Condoleezza Rice

One of the core ideas of the Bible is that meaning can be found in history. The sheer act of telling and retelling stories helps us to understand God's role in the world as well as our own position in a long line of ancestors who have wrestled with similar issues to the ones we wrestle with every day.

~ Bruce Feiler

The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.

~ Salman Rushdie

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Walt Whitman

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.

~ Jimmy Carter

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

~ Colin Powell

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

~ Tom Ford

Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world.

~ Angela Davis

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

~ Stephen Gardiner

Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.

~ Paul Wolfowitz

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

~ Kofi Annan

If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world.

~ Diego Maradona

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

~ Robert Dale Owen

Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.

~ Josiah Strong

We learned the value of research in World War II.

~ Amar Bose

We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government.

~ Ken Calvert

In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.

~ Eyvind Johnson