Here we have the best History Quotes from famous authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Anibal Acevedo Vila, Canelo Alvarez, C. S. Lewis, J. M. G. Le Clezio. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.
Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
The real world is the fantasy writer‘s scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and religions are all invaluable sources of guidance and inspiration.
Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and – above all – nothing seems impossible.
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.
My dad said, ‘Go to college and take whatever you want.’ So, I went to the University of Miami. When I got up to the line at registration, I saw that you had to take math and history. I said, ‘There’s no way I’m taking math and history.’ And right next to it was the line for the drama department.
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
The history of art is the history of revivals.
When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America’s bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
I let the American people down.
The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.
No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.
Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I love the smell of the river; love its history, its gentleness. I was aware of its presence from my earliest years. Its majesty centered me, calmed me, was a solace to a certain extent.
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Anti-Semitism has never gone away; it will always be there because it’s a very convenient prejudice. The gene of it, the original DNA, is buried deep within our history. And even within some Jews as well.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
There are no extraordinary men… just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
I have a great identification with Judaism as a religion and as a culture, and all the values that created such a great history, and the Jewish contribution to the betterment of all humanity.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.
I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
Well, I’m not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished.
Man’s naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.
Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
Issues over same-sex marriage and LGBT people in the PCUSA are not new: there is a 40-plus year history of arguments and tacit agreements over the issue of sexuality in the denomination, and the first openly gay minister in the PCUSA was ordained in 2011.
You can’t supervise your own history.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
I was always a history buff.
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
Black women I’m talking to you, because it’s not white women, it’s not Latino, it’s not Native American – I checked, it’s y’all. The self hate is ridiculous. Why do you hate yourself so much, why do you hate your texture, why do you hate your culture, why do you hate your history?
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions – in a Freudian way – to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
Journalism is in fact history on the run.
I think we’re struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.
Never, ever forget history.
History repeats itself, and that’s one of the things that’s wrong with history.
History will judge me… I shall remain silent.
We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.
The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.
Ideas shape the course of history.
All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
History should be written as philosophy.
I’m proud to partner with organizations that place an emphasis on and share my interest in giving back to the community. RBC has a rich history of doing this through their sponsorship of golf and the extensive ambassadorial program they have in place.
One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
Then I despair… I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?
The history of the tobacco industry is not a positive one.
All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.
I wrote ‘The Painted Word,’ about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one.
I was reading a book… ‘the history of glue‘ – I couldn’t put it down.
History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.
All the Indigenous paintings throughout history, they were always a bird‘s eye view, it’s the Indigenous way of storytelling.
I’m sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn’t mean having read a few art history books.
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
For much of Toyota‘s history, we have ensured the quality and reliability of our vehicles by placing a device called an andon cord on every production line – and empowering any team member to halt production if there’s an assembly problem. Only when the problem is resolved does the line begin to move again.
You can’t change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
I want to go down in the history books as one of the greatest female boxers of all time, and I think I’m on the right path.
Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn’t usually some big political message behind what they were doing.
I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.
Israel is too attached to America, too influenced by America. It should be connected to Europe. America is based on mythology – the free man, the individual, the open frontier. Europe is more conscious of history. Take Britain and Shakespeare. You shape your identity through history.
History repeats itself, and that’s one of the things that’s wrong with history.
A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It’s happened four times, and it will happen again.
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Football is great because you always have another opportunity to change history.
Dad, I’m in some trouble. There’s been an accident and you’re going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker‘s dam is the history we make today.
Today is reality. Yesterday is history.
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
I came, I saw, I conquered.
I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society?
Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.
History is more or less bunk.
History and social sciences were my interests. I was always interested in knowing how societies get organized, why there is rich and poor divide, why there are classes. I was never apolitical. I think we are all political in a way. Politics decides our day-to-day life.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
To be successful in anything, you have to have a passion for it, and that leads to being enthusiastic and demanding. I didn’t have it for history. So I wouldn’t have been a good teacher in that area. But I had it for basketball. And that’s what coaching is at every level: it’s about teaching.
We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.
It’s an absolute honor to be taking part in the pageant for the Diamond Jubilee. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and will be a moment in history that will always be remembered. I’m really looking forward to being out on the river with friends and family. To mark this historic moment will be extremely special.
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
Growing up, I always saw the hypocrisy of the Catholic church. The history speaks for itself, and I grew incredibly frustrated and angry. I essentially just put that into my words.
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.
Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to hasten western decline: they have both failed to achieve their objectives and in the process demonstrated an underlying western impotence.
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
The way you ‘take history’ is also a way of ‘making history.’
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.
English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It’s the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
I never feel lonely if I’ve got a book – they’re like old friends. Even if you’re not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they’re part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.
But I think it’s more that when you’re young, you’re invincible, you’re immortal – or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you’re inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It’s fixed. You can’t change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
Democrats, for their part, have chosen to go the way of reckless obstruction, pursuing the first partisan impeachment in history.
The very best Labor governments in our nation’s history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations.
The Thames is liquid history.
The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.
The cosmos is three times as old as Earth. During most of creation‘s 14 billion year history, our solar system wasn’t around. Nonetheless, the early universe still had the right stuff for life, and contained worlds that were just as suitable for spawning biology and intelligence as our own.
I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.
I want to travel the world – like Egypt. I love history. That’s my favorite subject at school. From the building of the pyramids to… King Tut. Their way of working without technology. I find all that fascinating.
The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny – and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain.
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.
The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.
I love Rome and the way that you can wander around and find something interesting around every street corner. You can smell the history.
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won’t. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
I’m obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight. I think the evolution of insect flight is perhaps one of the most important events in the history of life. Without insects, there’d be no flowering plants. Without flowering plants, there would be no clever, fruit-eating primates giving TED Talks.
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
If you look at the paintings that I love in art history, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being celebrated on the big walls of museums throughout the world. What feels really strange is not to be able to see a reflection of myself in that world.
I wouldn’t attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.
Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.
The proud fight against colonialism is one that should be consigned to history.
The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the U.S. Senate, enshrined into law the basic principle upon which our country was founded – that all people are created equal.
I don’t know where streaming will go in the future. The analytics that we’re seeing tell us that streaming is the next thing, and downloads are going down. I feel like with the history of this platform, from vinyl to where we are now, it just seems like the next logical step.
While we read history we make history.
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art’s audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
I see myself in competition with Blur and Oasis. But everyone else just sees me as this guy with a history.
Everybody makes money; not everybody makes history.
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
I came to the UFC to make history.
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.
Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I’m still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done.
There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who remember such cycles are very important to us now.
My place in design history is to sort of interpret youth culture, and I think we’ve seen that done in fashion before – it’s not a new concept – but it hasn’t been done with the same vigour in a modern context.
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
There no longer can be any doubt that the creation of the first index mutual fund was the most successful innovation – especially for investors – in modern financial history.
Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
History isn’t something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
My only advice is, follow your dream and do whatever you like to do the most. I chose journalism because I wanted to be in the places where history was being made.
The proud fight against colonialism is one that should be consigned to history.
In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.
Sometimes – history needs a push.
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
We’re at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.
I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
I believe, 50 years from now, when you write history, one technology that would have changed human civilization is going to be the mobile Internet.
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods – like airports and highways – has a long, often-uncontroversial history.
I’m the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don’t believe it, check the cash register.
We always have to believe in what is possible in life and not be hindered by history or expectations.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Contrary to what we learn from progressives in education and the media, the history of the Democratic Party well into the twentieth century is a virtually uninterrupted history of thievery, corruption, and bigotry.
History is the best guide to the future.
The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.
It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.
I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.
Our landscapes connect us to our history; they are the source of our character as a peopl, as well as our health, our safety, and our prosperity. Natural resources enrich us economically, yes. But they also enrich us aesthetically and recreationally and culturally and spiritually.
It does not matter how much we donate; it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define meaningful? Let society and history judge.
The so-called ‘materialistic conception of history,’ with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the ‘Communist Manifesto,’ still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.
It’s a very good historical book about history.
The Windrush era is a very important part of British history as it helps us understand how and why we became the multicultural society we are today, and also helps us understand the history of race relations in this country.
In Thailand’s history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.
Racism is endemic to the human condition, just as stupidity is. We will always have to be on guard against it. But now it is recognized as a scourge, as the crowning immorality of our age and our history.
In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
There’s a big mistake that people make with history, which is to think that people in the past were just like us, but wearing crinolines. They lived in different worlds.
The Great Migration changed American history not just for the migrants but for all of us. It made possible American cultural milestones like the Harlem Renaissance, Chicago blues, and Motown, just to name a few.
History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.
I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.
It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.
Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
A year is an eternity in politics – though less than a moment in history.
Ukraine and Israel have long-standing historical ties. Our nations have together experienced all the tragedies in recent history – the Holodomor and the Holocaust, the Second World War, and the totalitarian Soviet regime.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
Louisiana has a storied history in filmmaking, with one of the world’s most diverse settings for cinematic and television productions.
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
When I’m not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I’m not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I’m reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.
France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they’ve forgotten all about it. I’m afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
It’s not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
Mother Nature has been the best bioengineer in history. Why not harness the evolutionary process to design proteins?
When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation’s history and the world’s future.
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‘I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.’
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
American history and the black experience are inextricable. And both are inextricable from policing. Far more often than not, that’s been a good thing.
The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society.
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history.
Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.
One of the problems in the Ukrainian crisis is that very few Westerners know their history, or if they know it, what they learn is what we call the Russian version of history.
The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.
There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go.
We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere… can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
Yeah, I read history. But it doesn’t make you nice. Hitler read history, too.
But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.
The Marine Corps is the Navy‘s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.
We learned the value of research in World War II.
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.
Our particular problem in America at this point in history is the widespread loss of the sense of individual significance, a loss which is sensed inwardly as impotence.
I’ve told myself I have a chance to make history, and that’s my focus.
It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
The Supreme Court‘s only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
We’re all burdened by our history of racial inequality. It’s created a kind of smog that we all breathe in, and it has prevented us from being healthy.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Football is great because you always have another opportunity to change history.
People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
We should not be flying a flag of a group who wants to erase our history and bring mass destruction to our country through Communism.
Before I’m a zombie nerd, before I’m a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
