History Quotes
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However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.
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Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
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All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors (who for the most part are but the great butchers of mankind) farther mislead growing youth, who by this means come to think slaughter the laudable business of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues.
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Remarks by the President at the Dedication of the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (24 September 2016)
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History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.
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I'm the sort of person who, once I put dragons into the real world, feels obliged to think about how their presence would have changed history.
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The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.
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The only thing that can be expected from the next US president is more war, more murder, and more oppression of the gullible American people. People as uninformed and as gullible as Americans have no future. Americans are a dead people that history is about to run over.
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In the U.K., the history of regulation, certainly regulation of the media, is one in which, time and again, successive governments lacked the 'bottle' to enforce the powers that were available to them.
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.
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Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.
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I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort.
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I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.
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My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.
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I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.
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When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.
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Half the things you've been taught in school are just convenient fictions. History is a puppet show for childish minds.
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Each typeface is a piece of history, like a chip in a mosaic that depicts the development of human communication. Each typeface is also a visual record of the person who created it - his skill as a designer, his philosophy as an artist, his feeling for... the details of each letter and the resulting impressions of an alphabet or a text line.
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In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side, most likely as punishment for some future liberally minded paper I was bound to write.
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For the first time in our history, the winners of the White House Turkey Pardon were chosen through a highly competitive online vote. And once again, Nate Silver completely nailed it. The guy is amazing.
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If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people, organizing for justice, for liberty, and for happiness, meant. Our flag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings. This American flag was the safeguard of liberty. It was an ordinance of liberty by the people, for the people. That it meant, that it means, and, by the blessing of God, that it shall mean to the end of time!
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In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
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The history of cinema appears to be easy to do, since it is, after all, made up of images; cinema appears to be the only medium where all one has to do is re-project these images so that one can see what has happened.
