Annie Besant Quotes

What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the [Ancient] Greeks?

Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.

In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.

World history is a court of judgment.

World history is the history of the great cultures.

Civilizations are a matter of the mind.

Each century believes its fight to be weightier than that of all others preceding it.

Overall, for 99 years, the planet grew more peaceful and prosperous under Britain’s eye.

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age.

Generations of tradition and hard work are required to form a nation of traders.

A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its members the benefits of socially accumulated knowledge.

Writing history is writing the soul of the past...

If it is commercialism to want the possession of a strategic point giving the American people an opportunity to maintain a foothold in the markets of that great Eastern country [China], for God's sake let us have commercialism.

… the keenest observer of William the Conqueror's Norman robbers and Saxon swineherds would have failed to foretell the great dominant race which has come from them by free growth and good culture.

The Iraqis have a country that inherited cultures thousands of years old while the Americans have a culture only two hundred years old. Two hundred years will teach thousands of years? Oh Americans, leave Iraq for its people.

Let us not allow the splits and splintering to frighten us. It is, indeed, a pity, but what can we do, since we are Bulgarians and all suffer from one common disease. If this disease had not been present in our ancestors, from whom we inherited it, they would have never fallen under the scepter of the Turkish Sultan ...

Trying to recreate for people the ways in which the past was similar to the present is an important part of what a historian has to do, and what a student of foreign policy has to do.

The humble American sweet potato helped China double its population to 300 million by 1800.

Along with independence of India from the British Colonial rule, physical and mental development of masses is necessary for rebuilding the nation

It sounds funny, but I felt that my responsibility as an American actor was to let the British know we can act as well as they can.

As the grandson of Italian immigrants, maybe I am biased, but I think Christopher Columbus, the man who is rightfully credited with bringing European civilization to the Western Hemisphere, deserves the national holiday enacted by Congress in 1934.

'Captives' was a deliberate bridging exercise, an attempt to use detailed knowledge of what Britain was like on the inside, to reach a deeper, more variegated understanding of how its peoples experienced external adventures and aggression over a quarter of a millennium in four continents.

Boston had the first public library, Liverpool had the first lending library. Both cities have pioneered medical advancements during the decades and both have the largest economic powers in the world exactly 213 miles to the south by car.

Nobody can look back into our history and look at everyone who contributed into our development as a country and find someone who's flawless.

I love and I'm intrigued by what history does to people and to subjects that matter.