Top 20 World History Quotes

Words matter. These are the best World History Quotes from famous people such as Fred Ward, Gad Saad, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Albert Schweitzer, Celine Buckens, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

It's a major part of world history that men are trying

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
World history is shaped both positively and negatively by people who judge.
Gad Saad
Americans don’t learn about the world; they don’t study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don’t study geography.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
Albert Schweitzer
I actually love history. I’ve devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They’re really two sections of world history that really interest me. I knew very extensively a lot about World War I.
Celine Buckens
Covid-19 has altered world history.
Scott Gottlieb
Any time a country transitioned to a fiat currency, they collapsed. That’s just world history; you don’t have to know about cryptocurrency to know that.
Nipsey Hussle
NATO is the most important military alliance in world history.
Mitch McConnell
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
Mao Zedong
This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age – a Golden Age – of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing.
Joe Lieberman
I think we could benefit from world history that is specifically taught in a multi-faceted fashion that allows for an understanding that perspectives on truth can be very different.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
To be honest, I don’t listen to much music! I’ve been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive around in my car, I’ll listen to college lectures on philosophy and literature and world history, things like that, to kind of catch up on the college experience I missed.
Butch Trucks
Despite its challenges, globalization has led to one of the most peaceful and productive times in world history.
Mike Quigley
Our nation has slashed budgets for education, job training, economic development, and drug treatment while investing billions in prisons and militarized police. A penal system unprecedented in world history has been born. Millions have been arrested and stripped of basic civil and human rights.
Michelle Alexander
World history is a court of judgment.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
If you think the shifting tectonics of world history might make for a juicy crime fiction backdrop, the last decade or so has proved you right.
Sarah Weinman
I actually love history. I’ve devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They’re really two sections of world history that really interest me.
Celine Buckens
A free and democratic society is not the norm. When you look to the history books, world history was not based on great democratic societies but on imperialism, absolute rule, kings, queens, monarchs, dictators.
Rocky Carroll
I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
Kara Lindsay
In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
Theodore Bikel