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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
— Carl Jung
History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.
— Tariq Ramadan
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
— Friedrich Engels
Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land.
— Tariq Ramadan
Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
— Fidel Castro
I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America.
— Shirley Chisholm
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
— Winston Churchill
The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
— Maya Angelou
Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
— Otto von Bismarck
It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
— Elie Wiesel
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
— John F. Kennedy
China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.
— Gary Locke
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
— John F. Kennedy
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
— Edward Gibbon
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
— Wendell Berry
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
— Barry Goldwater
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
— James K. Polk
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
— Malcolm X
It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.
— John Coleman
In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.
— Steven Spielberg
Manchester United are not just some club. To be part of this club also means to be part of a great history.
— Henrikh Mkhitaryan
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.
— John Sharp Williams
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
— Carter G. Woodson
I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.
— Sun Ra
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
— Gertrude Stein
I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.
— Judy Chicago
There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.
— Robert Ballard
After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.
— David Cameron
A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.
— Lucy Larcom
Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
— W. Daniel Hillis
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
— Aldous Huxley
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
— Bertrand Russell
That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.
— Philip Zimbardo
The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.
— Adam Mansbach
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
— Derek Walcott
During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
— Xi Jinping
There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.
— James McGreevey
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
— Thomas Sowell
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history.
— Myles Munroe
If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different.
— Robert Harris
Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I love the smell of the river; love its history, its gentleness. I was aware of its presence from my earliest years. Its majesty centered me, calmed me, was a solace to a certain extent.
— Julie Andrews
The suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 killed 52 innocent people and wounded hundreds more. All of them must live with their memories. And the rest of us will always remember where we were when we heard that London had been hit by the worst terrorist attack in its history.
— Pauline Neville-Jones
I'm turned on by guys who are cultured. That'll keep me intrigued. They don't have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.
— Rihanna
What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.
— Stephen Jay Gould
The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
— Noam Chomsky
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
— Margaret Thatcher
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
— William O. Douglas
The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable.
— Elon Musk
History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of opposite and divergent ideals. One of the two had to yield and succumb.
— Jose Rizal
Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.
— Hans Haacke
Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.
— Richard P. Feynman
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
— Martin Luther
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
— Clarence Darrow
Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.
— Niger Innis
Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.
— Phyllis George
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
— Al Gore
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
— Mao Zedong
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
— David Ben-Gurion
So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression.
— Phillip Noyce
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.
— Terry Eagleton
My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.
— Alice Temperley
The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.
— Jim Webb
Even the most meticulous historians work subjectively. The historian's point of view, his or her selection of subject and sources, the emphasis, the tone - all of these lead to subjective history, inevitably so. I do not say this as a criticism, merely as an observation.
— David Ebershoff
If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.
— James Mattis
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
— John Dewey
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
— Charles A. Beard
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
— Virginia Woolf
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
— Woodrow Wilson
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
— Karl Popper
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
— Norman Mailer
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
— Lord Acton
This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.
— Cory Booker
Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
— Eddie Vedder
We don't see the global citizen as someone with no identity, but rather someone who has confidence and is proud of his culture and history - and... open to the modern world.
— Moza bint Nasser
The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.
— Bill Gates
Our landscapes connect us to our history; they are the source of our character as a peopl, as well as our health, our safety, and our prosperity. Natural resources enrich us economically, yes. But they also enrich us aesthetically and recreationally and culturally and spiritually.
— Robert Kennedy, Jr.
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
— Hannah Arendt
All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.
— John Baldacci
The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
— Kathryn Bigelow
The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.
— Shimon Peres
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
— Nikita Khrushchev
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
— Thomas Carlyle
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
— Benjamin Disraeli
We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion.
— David Ebershoff
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
— Margaret Mead
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
— Ludwig von Mises
Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.
— Vikas Swarup
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
— George S. Patton
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
— David Brin
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
— Konrad Adenauer
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
— Robert Kennedy
Contrary to what we learn from progressives in education and the media, the history of the Democratic Party well into the twentieth century is a virtually uninterrupted history of thievery, corruption, and bigotry.
— Dinesh D'Souza
Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.
— Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
— H. G. Wells
To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.
— Giuseppe Garibaldi
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
— A. J. P. Taylor
I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.
— Steven Spielberg
All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.
— Wade Davis
Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing - not only by our words - that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.
— Pope Francis
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.
— John Henrik Clarke
God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.
— Max Lucado
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater.
— Stacy Schiff
History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
I was France.
— Charles de Gaulle
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
— Charles de Gaulle
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
— M. Scott Peck
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
— Edward Kennedy
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
— George Santayana
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
— Jessamyn West
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
— John W. Gardner
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
— Evita Peron
If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.
— David Horowitz
All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
— Richard Brautigan
What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
— Orson F. Whitney
Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.
— Madeleine Albright
History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.
— Lin-Manuel Miranda
I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
— Morgan Freeman
Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.
— Ruth Benedict
I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.
— John Barrasso
My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history.
— Jose Mujica
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are great legends and great fighters in the history of Mexico, and there will be more to come.
— Canelo Alvarez
There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go.
— Lal Bahadur Shastri
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
— Richard M. Nixon
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
— Luis Gutierrez
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
— Karl Marx
What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.
— Steven Johnson
Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.
— Conor Oberst
Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.
— Jim Goldberg
If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.
— Sarah Churchwell
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
— Vladimir Lenin
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
— Walter Scott
I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.
— Steve Lacy
I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.
— William H. Wharton
Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.
— Ray Manzarek
History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
— Will Durant
My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
— William Jennings Bryan
People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.
— Fatos Nano
I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
— Sacha Baron Cohen
In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history.
— Juan Williams
The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.
— Ha-Joon Chang
If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
— Haile Selassie
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
— Noam Chomsky
Jesus was not born in a manger in central Pennsylvania. He was a man of color. And the fact that we have represented him for centuries literally as a white man speaks to the entire history of white supremacy.
— Tim Wise
My grandfather was Jacques Cousteau, a pioneer of ocean exploration and the co-inventor of scuba diving. Back in the 1940s when he tested out his invention which allowed humans to swim freely in the ocean with a portable air source for the first time in history, very little of the ocean had been explored let alone captured on film.
— Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
— George Bernard Shaw
The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.
— Potter Stewart
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
— George F. Kennan
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
— David McCullough
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
— Golda Meir
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
— Jefferson Davis
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
— Madame de Stael
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
— Robert Frost
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
— Gustave Flaubert
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
— Albert Camus
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
— Joseph Conrad
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
— George Meredith
The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.
— Francis Cabot Lowell
The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.
— Jean Piaget
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
— Horatio Alger
It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.
— Fred Ward
This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.
— John Perkins
In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
— Alan Watts
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
— Edward Bond
While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
— Mattie Stepanek
I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.
— Edward Everett
It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
— Audre Lorde
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
— Robert Mugabe
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
— Alice Walker
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
— Prince Charles
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
— Paul Valery
It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
— Molly Ivins
Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
— Conor Cruise O'Brien
History should be written as philosophy.
— Voltaire
World history is a court of judgment.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
— Karl Marx
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
— Queen Elizabeth II
I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'
— Samuel L. Jackson
The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.'
— Jennifer Sky
Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.
— Alton Brown
We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.
— Paul Ryan
I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.
— Richard Dawkins
We made history when President Obama appointed Sonia Sotomayor, a proud Latina, the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. And as the President likes to say, 'Every single one of them wasn't just the best Latino for the job, but the best person for the job.'
— Charlie Gonzalez
I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
— Nikki Giovanni
The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.
— David Attenborough
The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
— Ben Bernanke
I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.
— Keith O'Brien
What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
— Barney Frank
With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.
— Thomas Friedman
As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.
— Kevin Rudd
The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.
— Jonathan Sacks
The hallmark of our times is change and acceleration, but we have to provide the history.
— Jim Leach
The moment that changed me for ever was when I had my first seminar with my history professor at the University of Sussex. I realised that history would answer all the questions I had spent my life asking. It was an extraordinary moment.
— Philippa Gregory
I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize for best all-around student. Afterwards my father said to me, 'Never, ever disgrace me like that again.' When I tell my Western friends, they are aghast. But I adore my father. It didn't knock my self-esteem at all.
— Amy Chua
No back in the history of football was ever worth two fumbles a game.
— Woody Hayes
Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.
— Bill Bryson
If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps.
— Michele Bachmann
The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.
— Jeremy Hardy
I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.
— Frank Gehry
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
— Maya Angelou
Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.
— Joel Osteen
Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.
— Nicolas Cage
Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
— Umberto Eco
History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.
— Umberto Eco
In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot of the current moment. The information itself - our social graph of friends and likes - is a product being sold to market researchers in order to better predict and guide our futures.
— Douglas Rushkoff
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.
— Chinua Achebe
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
— Aldous Huxley
I've always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don't know why. I don't like hot weather, and I don't like the desert, but something about the pyramid and the mummies and all their history there, I'd love to go check it out.
— Jean-Luc Bilodeau
Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.
— James Buchan
Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.
— Karyn Parsons
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.
— David Attenborough
Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.
— Franz Boas
I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
— Oliver Stone
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.
— Marco Rubio
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
— Aleister Crowley
I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I knew there was a history that accompanied my skin color, and my parents taught me to be proud of it. End of story.
— Issa Rae
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
— Dan Quayle
The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.
— Catherine Opie
If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for the course of their history and the needs of their inhabitants so require.
— Jose Rizal
I know that we will be judged in history by not only how we disrupt terrorism but how we protect the civil liberties and constitutional rights of all Americans, even Americans who don't wish us well. We must do all these things exceptionally well.
— Robert Mueller
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
— Ayn Rand
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
— John F. Kennedy
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
— Nelson Mandela
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
— Thurgood Marshall
The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
— Lech Walesa
In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.
— Tommy Lee Jones
There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.
— Michelle Obama
President Obama is a gifted politician. He is gifted with rhetoric virtuosity. He is gifted with the ability to lie directly to camera without blinking. And he is gifted with some of the most incompetent conservative opposition in the history of the country.
— Ben Shapiro
He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
— Lech Walesa
I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I would want to go down in history as is Hugh Hefner.
— Gloria Steinem
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
— Warren Buffett
A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
If given a chance, I would really want to explore the monuments in Delhi, like Qutub Minar and the forts. I have been there as a child, but now I want to go back and understand the history and significance behind them. We take all of these things for granted in life.
— Shreya Ghoshal
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.
— Max Weber
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
— William Halsey
The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.
— Maurice Hinchey
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
— H. G. Wells
History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.
— Hilary Mantel
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
— George Eliot
If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.
— Jonathan Sacks
History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.
— John le Carre
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
— Pope John Paul II
All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.
— Neil Armstrong
History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does.
— Ed Royce
The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain.
— Robert Kennedy
The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.
— Josiah Strong
Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.
— Ken Kesey
We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.
— Aristide Briand
Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.
— Jo Bonner
I go to the Natural History Museum and look at the cage of stuffed starlings there. But my favourite thing is the big blue whale. The scale of it is unbelievable, and makes you feel how insignificant you are as a human being.
— Arthur Darvill
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.
— John Barth
History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.
— Gary Ross
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
— John Burroughs
Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.
— Jean Charest
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
— Hermann Hesse
I think you can learn from history.
— Chuck Norris