Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, progress, world and/or war:
“Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment’s comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“—Thus their hands are plucking at each other;
Picking at the rope-knouts of their scourging;
Snatching after us who smote them, brother,
Pawing us who dealt them war and madness.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)