History Quotes: Insights from the Past that Shape the Present
Unveiling the Tapestry of History
History is a fascinating tapestry that weaves together the triumphs, struggles, and narratives of humanity. It is a record of our collective experiences, achievements, and lessons learned. In this article, we delve into the vast realm of history and present a collection of insightful quotes that offer glimpses into the past and shed light on its profound impact on the present.
History is not merely a series of dates and events; it is a living story that shapes our identities, influences our choices, and provides us with valuable perspectives. By studying history, we gain a deeper understanding of who we are as individuals and as a society. It serves as a compass, guiding us toward a more enlightened future by drawing wisdom from the past.
Wisdom from the Past: Quotes that Inspire
Throughout the annals of time, philosophers, leaders, and historians have reflected on the significance of history and its enduring relevance. Their words encapsulate the essence of historical knowledge, inspiring us to explore, learn, and appreciate the profound impact of past events. Below, we present a collection of thought-provoking quotes that invite us to delve into the rich tapestry of history and glean insights that resonate with the present.
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
It could be said that all armed conflicts are a ludicrous and shameful waste of lives, but World War I has a special place in the history of futility – a war without clear purpose, a war whose resolution would ultimately make the world a far worse place.
Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.
Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods – like airports and highways – has a long, often-uncontroversial history.
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
History develops, art stands still.
I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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.
Black history is American history.
The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.
Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.
I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.
I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.
I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.
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.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
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.
If I fought like I was looking for a place in history, it would ruin me as a person. I don’t think history is worth selling my soul.
The arrow of time doesn’t move forward forever. There’s a phase in the history of the universe where you go from low entropy to high entropy. But then, once you reach the locally maximum entropy you can get to, there’s no more arrow of time.
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.
There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.
I really love travelling to places where I get to learn something new about a new group of people or a new place. Learn some history, contemplate some business ideas, and sort of get off the beaten track a little bit.
If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
If you forget your history, you forget who you are.
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.
I’ve told myself I have a chance to make history, and that’s my focus.
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man’s history is the beating of war drums.
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
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.
Never, ever forget history.
When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor – and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and – above all – nothing seems impossible.
I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.
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.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
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.
I’m the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don’t believe it, check the cash register.
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
I’m a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.
History is the best guide to the future.
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.
I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.
Our history is not our destiny.
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
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.
Football is great because you always have another opportunity to change history.
An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
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.
To me, meeting Buddy Guy was like meeting a piece of history.
Perhaps I am naive, but I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents.
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
The genius of vinyl is that it allows – commands! – us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.
The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.
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 people who have really made history are the martyrs.
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.
The want to return to the fold doesn’t mean you can repeat history.
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.
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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.
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Throughout history, we have only moved forward when society has distinguished between traditional values and valueless traditions.
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
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.
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.
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling ‘Stop!’
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.
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
Sometimes – history needs a push.
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.
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
World history is a court of judgment.
The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.
The most powerful words in English are ‘Tell me a story,’ words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
The proud fight against colonialism is one that should be consigned to history.
Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.
Stories bring us together. We can talk about them and bond over them. They are shared knowledge, shared legend, and shared history; often, they shape our shared future.
In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.
I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
The Supreme Court’s only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
It’s not about the past; it’s about knowing your history so that you can fight in the present. Otherwise, you don’t know who the real enemy is, what the real issue is, because it had been covered by many layers of bad information, of lies, and manipulation.
History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.
If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor – which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
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.
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
Although… the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.
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.
I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.’ I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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.
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
We must begin to tell black women’s stories because, without them, we cannot tell the story of black men, white men, white women, or anyone else in this country. The story of black women is critical because those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it.
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
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.
Our healthcare system has seen some of the greatest achievements of the human intellect since we started recording history: We’re developing incredible devices and implantables to improve the quantity and quality of people’s lives.
The history of art is the history of revivals.
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
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.
God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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.
When history is erased, people’s moral values are also erased.
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.
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.
Learning about our past is definitely important, not only for Australians but people around the world. It’s something that Australia should never be ashamed of. It’s part of our history. It’s part of us.
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.
I’ve done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I’ve done it, it’s been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of 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.
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.
I was France.
We know the history of players at Real Madrid and things are not easy at that club.
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.
Nobody in history has won all the titles I’ve won and the cruiserweight title. I’d be the only man in history. That’s when you die and go to Heaven, and God can look at you and know you did everything with the gifts he gave you.
If you think you have it tough, read history books.
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.
In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.
The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
If you look at the history of innovation, the innovations coming through the defence department have been some of the most important innovations ever. Little things like drones, sensors, and the Internet of Things are defence-type initiatives, but the big one is the Internet itself.
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.
If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.
The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.
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.
There are some real memorable highlights in my history that, in my mind, are such milestones. Winning a national championship in college and being on the Olympic platform getting a gold medal. Visiting the Hall of Fame and going into the Hall of Fame.
As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
Malaria has long been a devastating and life-threatening global epidemic disease in human history.
Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
People who are creating history don’t realize they’re creating it at the time it’s happening.
The history of the Welsh, the Irish, the Highlanders, is just the same as that of the Gauls, one of internecine feud, no political cohesion, no capacity for merging private interests, forgetting private grudges for a patriotic cause.
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
I’ve been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
Natural history is not about producing fables.
Some claim that the Obama FCC’s regulations are necessary to protect Internet openness. History proves this assertion false. We had a free and open Internet prior to 2015, and we will have a free and open Internet once these regulations are repealed.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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.
I was reading a book… ‘the history of glue’ – I couldn’t put it down.
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.
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
Time is my greatest enemy.
Tennessee obviously has a proud history of military service, but unfortunately, that also means that we have lost a lot of people serving the country who are Tennesseans.
What satellites help to show us is we’ve actually only found a fraction of a percent of ancient settlements and sites all over the world… It’s the most exciting time in history to be an archaeologist.
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, in my judgment, will go down in history as one of the four ‘great’ presidents since the U.S. reluctantly became an empire in World War II; Richard Nixon as the nearest to a sociopath by the time he was compelled to resign.
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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?
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.
‘The Last Kingdom”s got its roots in history, and it’s a lot grittier. It doesn’t have the ‘Game of Thrones’ gloss.
The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ.
I did not come to NASA to make history.
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.
It’s not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
I don’t fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.
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.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
I can say that we are very clear in our mind about the responsibility of the national soldiers for the break with civilisation that was the Shoah. We are firmly convinced that this is something that will have to be handed over to generations to come… so we don’t see any reason to change our view of history.
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.
You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man’s first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world’s heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
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.
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.
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.’
The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
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.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ’s vineyard.
Economists should be modest and be aware that they are part of the broader social science community. We need to be pragmatic about the methods we use. When we need to do history, we should do history. When we need to study political science, we should study political science.
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
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.
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.
Bitcoin is amazingly transformative because it’s the first time in the entire history of the world in which anybody can now send or receive any amount of money, with anyone else, anywhere on the planet, without having to ask permission from any bank or government.
Although I often find that the feminist rhetoric – not feminism – can come across as simple-minded, self-regarding, nuance-averse and reductive – biology to physiology, history to psychology, procreation to gynecology, and so on – I have come to realize that we should all be feminists.
Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.
I guess I’ll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I’ve made my mark on show-business 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.
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
It’s a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.
The Germs’ contribution to history sucks as far as I’m concerned.
There are no extraordinary men… just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
History is dependent on the new generation to write a new chapter.
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
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.
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
There’s never been someone like me in history – a fighter like me only comes along every 1,000 years.
The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God’s gift, that’s why we call it the present.
You either make money, or you make history.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.
We always have to believe in what is possible in life and not be hindered by history or expectations.
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
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.
My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.
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.
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
We Germans have learned from history. We are a peace-loving, freedom-loving people. There is only one place for us in the world: at the side of the free nations.
History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
We learned the value of research in World War II.
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.
I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.
To people who remember JFK’s assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father’s coffin.
History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.
I am running to make history, to show that no human is limited. It’s not about money, it’s about showing a generation of people that there are no limits.
We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.
The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
Manchester’s history is cotton and wool. Birmingham’s is iron and steel.
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.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.
Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.
Journalism is in fact history on the run.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
History has proved that dictators can’t last forever.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
What Britain needs is an iron lady.
For many years Madam Walker was just a little footnote in history. As a woman who made haircare products, she was really consigned to something trivial.
I’m focused on being the best, making history.
Sometimes you have to stand up for what’s right, and sometimes that may be ruffling feathers and may be frowned upon by everyone else, but at the end of the day in your heart, knowing you’re on the right side of history and knowing that you did the right thing, good or bad, you have to live with that.
If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn’t eat lunch.
The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy’s murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
Take everything you know. Take your whole selves. Be inclusive. Be open. Make history in the infinite ways that your heart takes you.
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.
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
My ancestors include Monahwee, who was one of the leaders in the Red Stick War, which was the largest Indian uprising in history, and Osceola, who refused to sign a treaty with the United States.
Strip malls are history.
I’m always happy, in every game, every win I keep writing my history, and I hope to do even more from now on.
A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
It’s important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it’s been possible, and that window could be open for a long time – hopefully it is – or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time – it has to progress or it can’t survive.
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.
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.
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.
Animals are the main victims of history, and the treatment of domesticated animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in history.
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.
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment – and you start to decline.
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.
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they’ve got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The ‘situation’ is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
History doesn’t turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.
We’ve got to map all of our ancient history before it’s gone because, let’s face it, if we don’t have a common heritage to share, something to get excited about, then what are we living for?
I have had the greatest wrestling career in the history of pro wrestling.
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.
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
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.
Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it’s all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It’s had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we’re much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.
Far too often, we have limited the definition of the Church. While not in all cases, in many cases, ‘Church’ has become an informational, inspirational weekly gathering rather than the group of people that God has ordained from Heaven to operate on his behalf on Earth in order to bring Heaven’s viewpoint into history.
We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
In Thailand’s history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.
One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make 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.
A year is an eternity in politics – though less than a moment in history.
I had a place to go to university; I was going to study history. I was in New York doing ‘Arcadia,’ and I suddenly thought, ‘It feels a bit weird to go from a New York stage to Manchester University.’ It didn’t quite feel right.
Anytime we’re talking about Thurgood Marshall, that’s a good thing, I think, because it gives us an opportunity to go back, look at the history, and recognize what his contributions were.
You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction.
History was invented as a tool, an engineered road down which human society could advance.
While we read history we make history.
Telling stories and having them received is so important. That dialogue is everything. I tell my students all the time that what separates us as human beings is our ability to hold stories. Our narrative history. There is so much power in that. Storytelling is our human industry.
I am responsible only to God and history.
We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience.
Every successful social movement in this country’s history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was the Boston Tea Party to the sit-ins at lunch counters throughout the South, no change has been won without disruptive action.
I’m obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.
History takes time. History makes memory.
I never imagined that divorce would be part of my life history or my family’s legacy. When people say that divorce can be more painful than death, I understand why. But like any great trial, God uses everything for good, if we allow Him to heal us.
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.
NATO is the most important military alliance in world history.
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
I find humanism to be the most rational and positive philosophy for life. And it’s not a new thing at all – the history of humanist thought is deep and inspiring.
Deep Purple is a damn good band and we’ve made a niche in rock ‘n’ roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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.
The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Never in human history had such a bold goal been adopted by the entire world in one voice, one that specified time and size.
Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that’s offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That’s my ideal.
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Countries get one chance in history of putting into place a savings retirement scheme on the scale of the Australian superannuation system.
Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.
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.
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.
I’m not a practicing Jew but my great-grandparents were. It’s part of our family history.
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.
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.
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.
Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land.
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.
Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.
People always want to be on the right side of history; it is a lot easier to say, ‘What an atrocity that was’ then it is to say, ‘What an atrocity this is.’
If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.
Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.
There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
History is the great dust-heap… a pageant and not a philosophy.
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
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.
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.
The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word ‘Arya,’ meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
It’s a very good historical book about history.
We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
In history people dressed much better than we do today.
The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States.
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
That’s all a man can hope for during his lifetime – to set an example – and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
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.
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 power of Haitian heritage and the strength of the Haitian people is tremendous. And Haiti holds a unique and rich role in the history of African Americans.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
The artist’s job is to be a witness to his time in history.
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
A lot of people would say history is important because it helps us to predict the future. I don’t think that it does particularly. What it really teaches you is that things have not always been the same, and they don’t have to be the way they are.
We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.
Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.
Leonardo Fibonacci, the great 13th century Italian mathematician (1175-1250) created the ‘Fibonacci sequence’ to explain behavior in nature mathematically. History has it that the first question he posed was how many rabbits would be created in one year starting with one pair.
Brock Lesnar is the most unique athlete in this history of World Wrestling Entertainment, and I say that with without embellishment or exaggeration.
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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 the story of events, with praise or blame.
The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
History will judge me… I shall remain silent.
My ultimate getaway is Vietnam. It has a little bit of everything when it comes to culture, amazing food, beautiful people, exotic sights, sounds and profound history of love, bravery and resilience.
Before I’m a zombie nerd, before I’m a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
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.
When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?
We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein’s soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.
This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age – a Golden Age – of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing.
For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
NATO’s brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn’t have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.
The Fort Lauderdale Strikers is a team with history, tradition.
Peaceful protest is a hallmark of our democracy. It has been in impetus for social change throughout our history.
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
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.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.
It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.
Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges – but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I’m the son of my history.
Of all the things we have done, the most important – the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation – is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.
Yeah, I read history. But it doesn’t make you nice. Hitler read history, too.
White people need to wake up and tell the truth about US history and the inequality and the ways in which racism is so entrenched.
The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
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.
Nothing is more difficult than trying to correct history.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.
Today is reality. Yesterday is history.
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.
History never really says goodbye. History says, ‘See you later.’
The proud fight against colonialism is one that should be consigned to history.
I’m the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don’t believe it, check the cash register.
I’ve often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
I was always a history buff.
The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.
Everyday I look back at my history and feel regret.
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there’s nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
The Shield had run its course as a three-man group, and we’ll go down in history as one of the greatest factions of all time.
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for the course of their history and the needs of their inhabitants so require.
Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don’t believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you’re likely to have issues.
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
God has a team. It’s made up of African-American, Anglo, Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern, and a variety of other people and cultures. He never wants you to make your distinction, your history, or your background so precious to you that it messes up His team.
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Repeal the Missouri Compromise – repeal all compromises – repeal the Declaration of Independence – repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man’s heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
History is always changing.
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.
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.
I like stories in specific time periods. ‘The Revenant’s’ era of American history was fascinating because it was this lawless no-man’s land. It defined the idea of the American frontiersman as man conquering nature. In a way, the story of Hugh Glass is about man dominating nature.
I’m a strong believer that you can build great companies in time of both greed and fear. But you have to be paying attention and operating under the right assumptions. You don’t have to believe history repeats itself, but you should accept that history rhymes.
I love the fact that, if I don’t win multiple championships, that I probably won’t be mentioned amongst the other guys in Celtics history who’ve done it before. That type of stuff motivates me.
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can’t stop to count it.
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.
I’ve always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don’t know why. I don’t like hot weather, and I don’t like the desert, but something about the pyramid and the mummies and all their history there, I’d love to go check it out.
History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they’ve answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
History will decide if I’m a villain or a hero.
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.
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
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.
But as for the future, I foresee a world which is more creative, more open, more loving, more ecologically friendly, more honest about its history and progress, and I think a lot of those contributions will be made by young people.
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people – brutal.
My first popular book, ‘A Brief History of Time,’ aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
When I finished ‘True History of the Kelly Gang,’ I realised that Faulkner had not lost his power over me.
The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves.
I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends’ portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland’s history in their lineaments trace; think where man’s glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
History is a vast early warning system.
Mother Nature has been the best bioengineer in history. Why not harness the evolutionary process to design proteins?
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.
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
The Negro League had some of the best players in history. Satchel Paige was probably one of the best pitchers in the history of baseball, and many believe catcher Josh Gibson was a better hitter than Babe Ruth.
After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
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.
My inspiration is love and history.
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.
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.
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.
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.
In the ‘Garnethill’ trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O’Donnell’s dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they’re middle-class – they’re just working class because they speak with accents.
Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.
History repeats itself, and that’s one of the things that’s wrong with history.
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That’s the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
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.
A woman’s whole life is a history of the affections.
It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.
There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.
I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history.
The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
In some sense, I’m a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.
A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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.
A clear lesson of history is that a ‘sine qua non’ for sustained economic recovery following a financial crisis is a thoroughgoing repair of the financial system.
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia’s history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.
The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
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.
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
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 want history to remember me… not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America.
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.
I came, I saw, I conquered.
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.
I got left for Mr. Bean. I found out a year after we split up. I opened the newspaper and there was a full-page story. No one else in the history of time has ever been left for Mr. Bean.
History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.
History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
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.
I’m head-over-heels in love with Southeast Asia. Every time I touch down in Thailand, Cambodia, or Vietnam, the air washes over me, and I feel like I’m home. From the people to the food to the history, there’s just no place like it.
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don’t use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.
Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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.
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
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.
That’s history. I say history because it happened in the past.
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
Football is great because you always have another opportunity to change history.
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.
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
Violence is a part of America. I don’t want to single out rap music. Let’s be honest. America’s the most violent country in the history of the world, that’s just the way it is. We’re all affected by it.
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.
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that’s least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Despite its challenges, globalization has led to one of the most peaceful and productive times in world history.
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
History repeats itself, and that’s one of the things that’s wrong with history.
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.
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?
All the Indigenous paintings throughout history, they were always a bird’s eye view, it’s the Indigenous way of storytelling.
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.
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
Our culture’s obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.
The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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.
In conclusion, history is an invaluable teacher that offers us insights, guidance, and an appreciation for the complexities of the human experience. As we navigate the present and shape the future, let us draw upon the wisdom shared by those who came before us. May these history quotes ignite our curiosity, deepen our understanding, and inspire us to learn from the past as we strive for a better tomorrow.
