History Quotes
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If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute their people do not remain standing.
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If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.
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The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.
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As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.
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The white race is the cancer of human history.
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My process for determining which eras I'd write about was to just read history books that gave a really broad overview of Chinese history. And when I came across a historical figure or a historical incident that was especially interesting to me, ideas for characters and stories would surface.
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I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree besides become a historian? And the professors in school, it seemed like they were just writing books for other professors to comment on, and vice versa - it was the most self-referential, boring world you could ever imagine.
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We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
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We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.
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Pen in Barack Obama hands is far more dangerous than any other president, at least in modern history, if not ever.
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It had a long and varied history, mostly involving crime, prostitution and the theater.
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Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.
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When I think of black television and history, I always use The Cosby Show as the bar.
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The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
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The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.
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The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
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The climate and the chemical properties of the Earth now and throughout its history seem always to have been optimal for life. For this to have happened by chance is as unlikely as to survive unscathed a drive blindfold through rush hour traffic.
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The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history.
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In the course of history the refugee was the first peaceful immigrant. In a social structure offering no place for a stranger, the unfortunate who had" taken the flight and so evaded death and black fate" at the hands of his enemies was sheltered under the sacred law of hospitality, since he came "as a fugative and a suppliant".
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The great jazz radio stations have a duty to continue evolving their format just as audiences ask the musicians to evolve. How do you do that with a form of music that has 100 years of recorded history? How do you also keep it contemporary so you don't isolate your listeners? These are major questions.
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Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you combine all these factors, you cannot create a capital market valuation of that activity.
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I have a long history of looking at things from an investor's perspective by training and background.
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When African-Americans come to France, the French show them more consideration than they would show an African or a Black Caribbean. When African-Americans come to France, the French people are like, 'Oh, wow. Oh my God.' But if it's an African, they're like, 'Whatever.' It's all because of the past, because of our history.
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Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to give a special temporal status to a group of phenomena that are both successive and identical (or at least similar); it makes it possible to rethink the dispersion of history in the form of the same; it allows a reduction of the difference proper to every beginning, in order to pursue without discontinuity the endless search for origin.
