Us History Quotes

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

Aside from Donald Trump, polls find [Hillary] Clinton to be the least-liked presidential candidate in recent history.

Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.

The whole history of the 20th century is a history of resistance groups which are either nationalist or, in large parts of the Muslim word, religious groups.

Photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident.

In the history of humanity, there's never been a country like America.

The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they ratified the 14th Amendment.

The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.

The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.

The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you don't know is what your personal unconscious is made out of.

History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.

The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.

History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.

It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.

History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.

I have a rule: I will not alter the basic history of a real-life character to suit our fictional needs in a big way.

There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.

If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.

The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes.

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

There was a man and he had eight sons. Apart from that, he was nothing more than a comma on the page of History. It's sad, but that's all you can say about some people.

History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it

History tends to change people who think they're changing it.

Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.

Home is where we have a history.

I love the ordered mind of history because it takes us out of the chaos, momentarily, and says, "Ah, so this is the story we are engaged in."

Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.

South Africa has faced many problems in the past. You would understand those problems if you understood the history of the struggle to get rid of Apartheid and the struggle to establish democracy.

The people I respect in the history of acting, from the beginning, were chameleons.

The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.

Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.

I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.

While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.

In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender.

Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.

History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.

A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.

I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.

A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.

The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality.

Even as regards Earth we are more committed to history than to geography, more committed to time than to space. History is endless. Place is limited.