History Quotes
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The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only the industrious, only the determined, only the courageous, only the visionary who determine the real nature of our struggle can possibly survive.
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Most inventions are based on some prior history.
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History is the revelation of providence.
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The world in the '90s had seemed somewhat stable. There was talk of the end of history, a calm consensus around where we were all going. Consumer capitalism with some sort of social conscience. Then 9/11 happened, and that illusion was blown out of the water.
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If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.
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'Reinventing the Bazaar,' by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild variety and importance of markets throughout history and around the world. I finally understood how a Middle Eastern souk actually works economically and how to compare that to modern-day telecom-spectrum auctions. I love that book.
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.
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I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.
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I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history.
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Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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In history books, or the one about the guy who cut his hand off to get out of a canyon in Utah, you really want them to be accurate. But my stuff is such small beer by comparison.
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What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. ... Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.
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Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I'm well aware of, but that's just part of coming to grips with what I believe is still one of the most important pieces of unfinished business in human history - empowering women to be able to stand up for themselves.'
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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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Search for a discipline within freedom! Don't let yourelf be governed by formulae drawn from decadent philosophies: they are for the feeble-minded. Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind...
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
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If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based, and you look at the actual core of the slavery, it's one person completely controlling another one.
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History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
