History Quotes
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When I was in South Africa, I went for dinner with some friends, and I knew more about their history than they did - it just hasn't been told.
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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
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Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.
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If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.
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The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ball.
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Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.
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For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
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In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed by multiple narratives.
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Americans think that they have a history, but it's nothing compared to Europe.
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There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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I just think 'Law & Order' is the gold standard. History is going to show that it's probably one of the best series of shows that has been on television.
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Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.
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Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
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The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.
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A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.
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We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
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We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history.
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The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
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I've always loved history, from my youngest memories. My father enjoyed the great stories of history, like Hereward the Wake, Robin Hood, and Richard the Lionheart, and he shared them with me. I went on to do a degree in history, though I found it rather dry, because it was mostly about politics rather than dashing individuals!
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I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was he a mere 'accident' in the course of German history.
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True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.
