History Quotes
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The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.
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I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history.
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The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.
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I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.
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This above all makes history useful and desirable: it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.
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the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to the total history of the world. The past is thus as real as the present.
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Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of the body while the masculine has signified culture and mental activity.
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There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.
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Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.
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You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.
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But for a few twists of fate, the gasoline engine we know today might have just been a small footnote in history.
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Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).
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I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it’s art, that’s great, but I’ll let history decide.
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Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.
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Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations. The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history.
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In the many-mansioned house of Alternate History, I occupy a small corner. The trio of what-ifs I chronicled in 'Then Everything Changed' all begin with tiny, highly plausible twists of fate that lead to hugely consequential shifts in history.
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History shows the power-grab in every religion once it gets organised. And then it's people making you do things that you don't agree with and setting the rules. But it does mean something to me to believe that we are not alone - the human animal is quite a scary thing, left on its own.
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We all remember the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What is less well known is that BP is claiming a 9.9 billion tax deduction on the money they had to spend cleaning up their own mess and paying for damages they caused. That is absurd.
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Apollo 11 will probably go down in history as one of the major responses of two nations facing each other with threatening technologies - sometimes called mutually assured destruction. It was also the America's response to the apparent superiority of the Russians in putting objects into space before USA could.
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If I have a daughter and she grows up to be an astronaut, she's gonna end up on a Black History Month stamp.
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At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada.
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A key goal for an author of history is to persuade his or her readers to forget what they know and to relive the world as it unfolded for characters of the time - with outcomes uncertain.
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The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.
