History Quotes
You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.
I came into the world either too early or too late; at present, I am good for nothing.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-Tung.
It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian.
For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.
There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.
Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY
The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress.
There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.
Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.
An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.
For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.
Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.
The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’!
The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.
Never before in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged - and yet so empty.
I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.
Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.
More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.
History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.
Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it will be recorded at my expense.
Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.
Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.
We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
When the drama of history is over, Jesus Christ will stand alone on the stage. All the great figures of history ... will realize that they have been but actors in a drama produced by another.
A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.