Us History Quotes

The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.

I don't know anything about American history or presidents. I don't know what tailgating is! I've never been to an Olive Garden!

Ours was a history of well-intentioned beginnings that end with a fight at every turn.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year period to concentrate on.

...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure.

To those in the executive branch who say ‘just trust us’ when it comes to secret and warrantless surveillance of domestic communications, I say, ‘Remember your history.’

There's already a lot of self-exculpatory history being written. Right across the board. And it's my task to make sure that such self-exculpatory histories cannot be written.

Soak in the history. Embrace the challenge. And feed off the hostility of the crowd.

When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

To know the origin of words is to know the cultural history of mankind.

I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.

People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective.

If you think of the history, in the days of Brahms and Beethoven and all these guys, almost every concert was a new music concert. To play something old was really an exception.

Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.

Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.

I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.

History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.

But I regret not having liked history.

The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people in the camps, ecological disasters.

Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political movements lose most of their meaning if they are considered separately.

Problems cannot all be solved, for, as they are solved, new aspects are continually revealed: the historian opens the way, he does not close it.

The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.

The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.

There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.

Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.

We do not have a plan. They do. History shows that those that plan, anticipate and have a coherent strategy usually win. We are not winning.

We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.

You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too.

Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

History never embraces more than a small part of reality

Nothing falsifies history more than logic.

Mitterrand had a sense for symbols, and he was the first Socialist president since 1958. He wanted to show that there is historical continuity, a connection with the great figures of French history.

I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development.

You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself from music-music, the music people have always made.

Essentially any history we have is just a history of aristocrats. We don't have any history of people.

The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.

Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.

Always history is being made; opinions attitudes and institutions change, and there is evolution in the nature of capitalism

I try to look at the texts and say: Is there a way that I can find history in the texts and separate it from what may be the mythological elements, and I don't find any rules for that.

The history of interpretation [of the Bible] is fascinating; but that is something else.

It has been said that in order to pursue the history of Biblical interpretation, you must include the whole philosophy of the West, which informs it at every stage.

[The story of Adam and Eve] it's poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval History] are absolutely remarkable.

The truth is that a lot of plays aren't political at all. In American theater history, political theater has tended to crop up when there's a crisis, a national crisis.