Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, western, civilization, world, war and/or aftermath:
“It is my conviction that women are the natural orators of the race.”
—Eliza Archard Connor, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 9, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)
“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“An accent mark, perhaps, instead of a whole western accent—a point of punctuation rather than a uniform twang. That is how it should be worn: as a quiet point of character reference, an apt phrase of sartorial allusion—macho, sotto voce.”
—Phil Patton (b. 1953)
“The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.”
—Aharon Appelfeld (b. 1932)
“He gave his honors to the world again,
His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)