History Quotes
We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.
History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it was so dramatic, and it was so violent.
The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.
We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
I don't think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or consumed by history.
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
You must train harder than the enemy who is trying to kill you. You will get all the rest you need in the grave.
The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history.
We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present
The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.
If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.
A vital film that needed to be made at this point in history and has been made magnificently.
It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.
The forgetting of the history of marginalized groups is both a cause and effect of their marginalization.
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason.
Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.
The Jew always lives from the blood of other peoples, he needs such murders and such sacrifices. The victory will be only entirely and finally achieved when the whole world is free of Jews.
To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.
The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.
In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.
What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.