History Quotes
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My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.
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Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.
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It's “Into Thin Air” there in print forever. It's part of history. People should be above taking someone else down. And for what? For money and egos people are willing to destroy other people to further their careers.
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I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.
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What's happening is that Asian and Latino and other groups without that history are more likely to end up in either black churches or white churches and then make them multiracial churches. I talk about that in the US we have two cultures.
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Throughout the history of the United States , war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central state. It has been the lever by which presidents and other national officials have bolstered the power of the state in the face of tenacious popular resistance.
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History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.
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We're about to live through history and it's incredibly exciting. But don't make the mistake of thinking life stops because of any of this.
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In a society with a long history of discrimination, there should be a presumption that many laws with a discriminatory impact likely were motivated by a discriminatory purpose.
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We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in all history, sacred and profane, in science, philosophy, poetry, and song.
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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
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Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
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If you trace the history of Islamist terrorism, you see that its founders were great admirers of European fascism. They read the texts of European fascism, they quoted them in speeches and letters. This is not from the Koran - the Koran doesn't teach you how to repress people; there's nothing in there about women having to cover their faces, there's certainly nothing about suicide bombing.
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Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
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Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.
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If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.
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The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.
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Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.
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There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.
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I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.
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One must not allow oneself to skid down to isolationism and unbridled economic egoism. ... The second possible mistake would be excessive interference into the economic life of the country. And the absolute faith into the all-mightiness of the state.
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If one person sits down at their computer one day and types one word, dose that affect the future? If that one person didn't type that one word, would the future's history be changed? Dose their one word even mean anything? Dose my one (times a lot) word mean anything? Dose that one person's one word even get read-once? If I wasn't sitting here writing my words, would my future be different?
