History Quotes
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Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, 'taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power.' History taught the same to many conservative and reactionary populist movements, whose real attitude to those in power and authority was one of a servile, envious, vicarious adoration.
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Whenever I meet a Korean, I ask about their immigration history.
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Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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The Internet lets us do that for first time in the history of computers. It lets us, in effect, make them into one big parallel supercomputer.
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I tried without much success to learn a little of the humanities and the arts, but even passing the courses in art history and music history was a challenge.
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I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.
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History and socio-economic inequality and all those things had, like, borne down upon my family and my community and really sort of narrowed our choices.
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This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it may be one of the most durable aspects of the relationship between black people and their country really in our history.
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History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
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The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
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History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
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There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.
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I see history with God.
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I love and I'm intrigued by what history does to people and to subjects that matter.
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Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realise that there is nothing stupid like war.
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There's a slippery slope in regard to authority. If you say that the history in Genesis is not true, then you can just take man's ideas as true. When you go outside of Scripture, why shouldn't you just reinterpret what marriage means? So our emphasis is on the slippery slope regarding authority.
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Family dramas are tough, as a playwright. Most stories are about characters going on a trip or a new character coming to town, because that's how you learn information about them. But with family, they all know each other already. There's years of history in every interaction.
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We are at a point in our nation's history when the right leadership is needed more than ever. Hillary has spent her life advocating for poor and working class families. Hillary will help build an economy for tomorrow and beyond; strengthen America's families; defend our country and its core values; and revitalize our democracy.
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This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.
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An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.
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We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me.
