The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe. Linda Chavez
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. Benjamin Disraeli
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.Stephen Hawking
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.David Brin
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.Karl Heinrich Marx
There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who remember such cycles are very important to us now. Carmen Agra Deedy
This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.Kareem Abdul Jabbar
To pitch a perfect game wearing pinstripes at Yankee Stadium, it's unbelievable. Growing up a Yankee fan, to come out here and make history, it really is a dream come true. David Wells
We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball. Bill Walton
We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people. James Lee Burke
We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. Abdul kalam
We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar. Charles Bukowski
We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country. Lorrie Fair
We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about. Jared Diamond
We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific. Jared Diamond
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. Thomas Mann