History Quotes
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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Repression can only go up to a point. When it becomes too acute, the instruments of repression, namely the army and the police, have been proved time and time again in history to have turned their guns on their masters.
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People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.
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Mitt Romney is to presidential campaigns as the Delta House grade point average was to Faber College - the worst in history.
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The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
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The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.
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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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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
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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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Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty.
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I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.
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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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If you look at the history of large financial institutions, most of them have succeeded because of a deep presence in their home market.
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History is, of course, a made thing. It does not exist by itself in anything like a recognizable form.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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The words of the Constitution … are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
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For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earth's true past was dug up in abundance.
