History Quotes
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Americans, more than most people, believe that history is the result of individual decisions to implement conscious intentions. For Americans, more than most people, history has been that.... This sense of openness, of possibility and autonomy, has been a national asset as precious as the topsoil of the Middle West. But like topsoil, it is subject to erosion; it requires tending. And it is not bad for Americans to come to terms with the fact that for them too, history is a story of inertia and the unforeseen.
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Through our own hard work and ingenuity, America has spent much of its history as the world's dominant economic power. But our dominance is not pre-ordained - history does not roll along on the wheels of inevitability.
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History belongs to the intercessors
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I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
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There are moments where history is made... This is one of those moments.
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The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and undramatic moments of existence. Even at low intensity, it is a steady source of illumination. Such religious truth is powerful even when it seems faint, even when it seems obscured by the larger events of history.
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History was a living thing with an endless supply of stories, of lessons to apply to the present of one’s own life.
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History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.
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Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
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At school, my favorite subjects were history, biology, chemistry, and physics. Especially the teaching in physics was excellent. Most of my understanding of it I got at high school, not at the university.
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History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.
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In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.
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One man, she thought then, could build or destroy, could change time and history, for better or worse. One man. Or one woman.
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I do get pissed off when I'm at some gay event, and there's a 25-year-old, and he has no idea who I am. And I say, 'You need to know more about your gay history, boy.' I think the younger generation takes it a little bit for granted.
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Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.
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History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
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He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.
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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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Most of the greatest albums in the history of music are one producer. It's just a fact. Or one collective.
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The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
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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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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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And the rest is history,' I said. Nah.' He shook his head. 'The rest is now.
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History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
