History Quotes
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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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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Hillary Clinton was urging voters to make history, but a lot of voters, particularly women, had trouble with her history. And she was portraying herself as a feminist, as a glass ceiling breaker, but, in fact, in the eyes of many women, especially women closer to Hillary Clinton's own age, she had gotten where she was primarily on her husband's coattails.
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This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.
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Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.
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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.
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Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.
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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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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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When the Temple was destroyed, the Jewish people faced a crisis unlike any other in its history. For centuries, the sacrificial system had served as the primary medium of atonement before the Almighty.
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I have come across both inspiring teachers of history and deplorable ones over the years, so one cannot generalise, except perhaps to observe that the profession seems to encourage anti-militarist sentiments.
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A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.
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When I look back, some of the greatest people in the history of the world have created things where paths have never been with such resiliency.
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There is a divinity awaiting entry into human history at the threshold of our heart's doors.
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The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.
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The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.
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Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
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History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.
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Every generation tailors history to its taste.
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The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.
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Most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.
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The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
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Throughout history, people have enjoyed playing both silly and clever games.
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Although the history of dispossession and exile for Jews is very different from the history of dispossession and exile for Palestinians, they both have recent and searing experiences which might allow them to come to a common understanding on the rights of refugees, or what it might mean to live together with resonant histories of that kind.
