Us History Quotes

It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master

"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."

Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.

We're here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids study history, don't you want them to be proud that you were part of the solution?

Neuer is one of the best goalkeepers in history.

Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history.

Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

Theatre is not supposed to represent psychology but passions, which is totally different. Its role is to represent the soul's different emotional states, and those of the mind, the world history.

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.

If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.

Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me.

The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.

Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power!

In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences

Your history does not need to define your destiny.

Then you have [Donald] Trump. So it could be the tightest, most hazardous race in political history and we can't afford to allow Trump to slither through. So that's where I'm at.

History is a process of transformation through conversation. In our efforts to produce change,we often forget how important it is to pay attention to what is being conserved.

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.

My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

History is like a constantly changing tree.

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can't make it worse.

Live in the moment. Moments make history.

One must not love oneself so much, as to avoid getting involved in the risks of life that history demands of us, and those that fend off danger will lose their lives.

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.

to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.

We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.

If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.

Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.

Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges

I would go back to the past and watch one of the early Beatles shows, because they were such a massive part of cultural history. As a younger person, you feel you missed out on that.

I never thought my cotton gin would change history.

In Nietzsche's view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic character of what happens in Occidental history.

The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.