Paul Mooney Quotes

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

If the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority.

This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin.

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

One man with courage is a majority.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.

This is the American moment in world history and one for which we shall ever be judged.

I guess I don't really feel like I have that much power to influence that many people.

No one can create a movement. No one can create a Gandhi.

One person of integrity can make a difference.

He is the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces. The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.

Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but the superior man, the superior men, the masters, the universal spirits on horseback, have to stop and search their memories merely to know who these so-called great men might be. And so the great man is left with the crowd, the worthless majority...for his admirers.

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.

I was put in this world to change it.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

Great visions are cast one on one.

People should really think about when they see President Donald Trump, they should think about all the places that he was and could be. All the things he could be doing. The political motivators for many typical politicians of which he's not one, Mercy, money, power, prestige, fame, he had all of that.

Donald Trump's fought maybe the greatest political machine in the history of the world.

Men make history. History does not make the man.

Most of us float with the river and there are a few people who move the river. Robert DeNiro is definitely one of them.

There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference.

Rise above your circumstances, change the world one person at a time starting with you, and be the inspiration you’ve been searching for.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.