Eric Foner Quotes

A new future requires a new past.

Eric Foner

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• To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Mind
  • Age

• When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • Future
  • Hair

• The future is no more uncertain than the present.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Future
  • Present
  • More

• People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• There are things I've done in the past I'm not proud of - and I could talk about them if I wanted to - but I don't reveal my secrets... I prefer certain things to remain personal; there have to be boundaries. And I don't think you need a scandal to have an interesting story.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Done
  • Past
  • Interesting

• I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Past
  • Best
  • Forty

• By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • People
  • Good
  • Future

• I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have in the past, and I will again.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Want
  • Past
  • Will

• I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any secret to my longevity, it's living in the future. And a little bit in the present.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Live
  • Future
  • Past

• The prophets... interpreted past history, shaped present history, and foretold future history on the basis of the conviction that God rules with righteousness in the affairs of nations, and that only what is just, and not what is expedient and profitable, shall endure.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • God
  • History
  • Future

• And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Good
  • Past
  • Joy

• We're not playing some minor game in Scientology. It isn't cute or something to do for lack of something better. The whole agonized future of this planet, every Man, Woman and Child on it, and your own destiny for the next endless trillions of years depend on what you do here and now with and in Scientology.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Future
  • Game
  • Destiny

• Just as the human memory is not a passive recorder but a tool in the construction of the self, so history has never been a simple record of the past, but a means of shaping peoples.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • History
  • Past
  • Simple

• We are the youth, we can make coolness for our future, it's up to us. Go green and hate hate.

  

  Lily Allen
  • Up
  • Future
  • Hate

• I don't want to say I was ever scared to voice my opinion. I was just trying to make a good example, I guess you could say. And even when I'm more outspoken, I believe that I am still making a good example for younger athletes and also future athletes.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Trying

• Keep working and saving and striving for a better future for your children, and for their children, even if you won't be around to see it pay off.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Children
  • Future

• We are mortgaging our future.

  

  Joan Blades
  • Future

• This country must break the cycle of childhood obesity. Unless we reverse course, this epidemic will continue to put more of our children and the future of our nation at risk.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Country
  • Children
  • Future

• I am not as scared about people tearing this one up as I would have been in the past because of the basis in 'knowing' this one has. There are people out there that are hungry for this.

  

  Kenny Loggins
  • People
  • Up
  • Past

• Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life
  • Good
  • Evil

• Control is not real, and I'm really understanding that every day. It's about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.

  

  SZA
  • Real
  • Control
  • Powerful

• Publishing a novel was such a proud thing for me. When I was a kid, I used to say to my mum and dad, 'I'm going to write a book. You'll see.' So when I did ,and it was published, and people liked it, it was great.

  

  David Thewlis
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier. History is memory; we have to remember what it is like to be a Roman, or a Jacobite or a Chartist or even - if we dare, and we should dare - a Nazi. History is not abstraction, it is the enemy of abstraction.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • History
  • Enemy
  • Memories

• A new future requires a new past.

  

  Eric Foner
  • Future
  • Past
  • Requires