History Quotes
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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
A. J. P. Taylor -
My most absorbing interests at the present time are etymologies of ancient languages, the newer works on the calculus of variations, and Hindu history. It's amazing the way things, apparently disconnected, hang together.
Daniel Keyes
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The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
David Brin -
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou -
We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.
Jay-Z -
In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
Karl Marx
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No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.
Derrick Jensen -
Students’ role doesn’t end in the classroom. Student-led movements have always been a part in changing history and fulfilling peoples’ dreams of achieving freedom and dignity interview after her speech
Tawakkol Karman -
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
Oscar Wilde -
Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
Carl Jung -
Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
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.
Aaron Klein
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
Octavio Paz -
When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
Jack Kevorkian -
Sonata form could not be defined until it was dead. Czerny claimed with pride around 1840 that he was the first to describe it, but then it was already part of history.
Charles Rosen -
My history of singing has always probably been closer to a David Bowie approach than, for example, an AC/DC approach.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?
Gary North -
The time before Islam is a time of blackness: that is part of Muslim theology. History has to serve theology.'
V. S. Naipaul
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Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
Camille Paglia -
The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.
Brian Tracy -
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
Abraham Lincoln -
So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood... in carrying out their own purposes and interests in their sphere of the world.
Fred Thompson