Us History Quotes

With the development of the printing press, not only could text be mass-produced quickly, it could also be mass-produced quickly and incorrectly.

As for me, I prefer truth to goodthink. I feel surer on my ground.

The church and the scientific community are fighting at times a common enemy: the truth religion cannot deny and the positivist materialist scientist is unable to explain.

… between the irrational promoted in churches and the Darwinian pseudo-science taught in schools, a revolution in the way we understand reality is not only necessary but also long overdue.

Sound bytes. Catch phrases. Sales pitches. Words. All lexical legitimizing. ‘A rose by any other name…’ he said. In the end it’s all propaganda.

She was a voice with a body as afterthought, a wry smile that sailed through heavy traffic. Give her a history and she'd disappear.Eric Packer about Vija Kinski

Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities.

Today is the first day in history.-One of Nathan's Daily GemsFrom the 'Book Store ON Main Street'Seal Beach, CA

We have to remember, sometimes the most important history is the history we're making today.

Each of us play a unique role in the history of life. What legacy do you want to live behind?

Respond to your ability, play your part and make your mark in history.

Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.

To every rule there are diverse sub rules which all apply to the same rule.

After 15 years of work I have achieved as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower the unity of the German nation and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not to write it.

In essence the renaissance is simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.

The past is a foreign country they do things differently there.

Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all the conscientious historian will correct these defects.

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy and it always feels uncomfortable.

History is philosophy learned from examples.

Don't brood on what's past but never forget it either.

The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

Any event once it has occurred can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

History is not another name for the past as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

Give the historians something to write about.

War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.

The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.

History is past politics and politics present history.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

When great changes occur in history when great principles are involved as a rule the majority are wrong.

More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles bills and proclamations.

History n: an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.

The world's history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

We should keep the Panama Canal. After all we stole it fair and square.

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.

History is something that never happened written by a man who wasn't there.

History a distillation of rumor

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

Those who neglect the lessons of their past are doomed to no future.

Between the sands of time is a multitude of truths untold.

History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism

It's a terrific book and I can't wait for the movie, " says Phillip Adams on Late Night Live, ABC Radio National.

She was an autocrat, didn't really believe in democracy. The benefit of her approach was that, if you work with twenty people and ask everybody's opinion, you would never achieve what she did.

Start to focus on things that unite the races of people instead of things that divide us, and you will have already won the battle, and are a building block to the solution.

If you put forth a small amount of effort, you just might find your next best friend for life is of a different race than your own.