Famous quotes containing the words world and/or historic:
“Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.”
—Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
“The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces—in nature, in society, in man himself.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)