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“I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow as a sign, etc., etc. and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos, or the beliefs of any barbarian.”

World Book Feelings Religion Belief Sacred Etc Tyrants Trusted Rainbow Towers Testament World History Old Testament Barbarians Babel Revengeful Tower Of Babel

Author:Charles Darwin

“I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.”

World Want Should Different Matter Play Opinion Roles Honest Regard Presses World History Brokers Arbiter Different Opinions

Author:Otto von Bismarck

“This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.”

World Song Blood Policy Succeed Speech Shooting Iron World History

Author:Otto von Bismarck

“Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase.”

World Nations Civilization Difficulty Live By Submit World History

Book:Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II

Source: Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II

“What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.”

World States Government Action United United States Republican Quiet Understood World History Republican Government

Book:Democracy in America: Volumes I & II

Source: Democracy in America: Volumes I & II

“It is from the midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up and carries fertility to the whole world. From this foul drain pure gold flows forth.”

World Humans Whole Industry Pure Spring Flow Rivers Gold Whole World Carrie Midst World History Foul Drains Fertility Sewers

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.”

World Class Struggle Dictatorship World History Proletariat Class Struggle Classless Society

Author:Karl Marx

“The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!”

Men World Country Hands Interest Danger Involved Europe Empires World History Shaking Shaking Hands

Author:Queen Victoria

“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.”

Men World Trying Talking Listening Majors Just One World History Slaughter

Author:Fred Ward

“Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality?”

World Brain Accepting Creation Personality Activity Connections Work Out Active Guides Labour Conception Spheres World History

Author:Antonio Gramsci

“If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.”

Ifs Knows World Way Firsts Persons Figures Masters Serving World History First Person Way To Live

Author:Paul Thomas Anderson

“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.”

World Country Land Population East World History Crowded Surplus

Book:Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis

Source: Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis

“The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the world - is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion. Jesus belonged to the race of prophets. He saw with open eyes the mystery of the soul. One man was true to what is in you and me. He, as I think, is the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man.”

Thinking Men World Soul Eye Jesus Names Race Virtue Saws Written Mystery Mankind Unique Proof Impression Prophet Subtle One Man Appreciated World History Open Eyes Infusion

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.”

World War States Existence Struggle Written Independence Warfare Strife Conquest World History Written History

Book:A History of Warfare

Source: A History of Warfare

“We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea of how to get rid of injustice; we would expropriate the owners and turn the wealth over to the common good. We expropriated the owners and we created one of the most monstrous and oppressive social systems in world history. And we keep repeating that in principle everything was all right, only some unfortunate accidents slipped in and slightly spoiled the good idea. Now let us start afresh.”

“Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?”

Ifs World Life Doe Has Beens Shows Romance Risk World History

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.”

World Humans Able Teaching Intellect Noble Sublime World History

Author:Sivananda

“Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.”

World Firsts Humans Important Worms World History

Author:Charles Darwin

“World history is tragic.”

World Tragic World History

Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt

“Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.”

World World History Ripped Cartoonist Sweetheart

Author:Ralph Bakshi

“Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world.”

World World History Hairstylist

Author:John Paul DeJoria

“Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.”

People World Important Ideas Active Changing The World World History Don't Change People Don't Change Jean Jacques Rousseau Jacques Rousseau

Author:Michel Houellebecq

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