History Quotes
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If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.
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I don't think that the black market's a new thing. It's always been a part of history, and it's been one of the ways that immigrants and disenfranchised people move into the middle class.
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I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.
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If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called 'categorical imperative.'
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The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?
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There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.
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Every session attended by the analyst must have no history and no future. What is 'known' about the patient is of no further consequence: it is either false or irrelevant. If it is 'known' by patient and analyst, it is obsolete....The only point of importance in any session is the unknown. Nothing must be allowed to distract from intuiting that. In any session, evolution takes place. Out of the darkness and formlessness something evolves.
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Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
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Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book.
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The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
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History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.
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My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task.
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What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
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One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.
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I think what history has done to Jewish people, frankly, cannot be made good by giving them a piece of land.
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It is blood which moves the wheels of history.
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I'm a Republican, I'm a conservative, I'm in first place, I want to run as a Republican and I think I'll get the nomination... Hillary Clinton is easily the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. She's going to be beaten and I'm the one to beat her.
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The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same stories over and over again - which are amazing, George Washington Carver is incredible, there's nobody like Frederick Douglass - but there are so many.
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I have always felt like I want to change the course of history.
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
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History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.
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We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.
