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.
