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.
