Us History Quotes
If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.
You can put people's feet to the fire a bit just by reminding them that we're constantly creating our own history.
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.
Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth
It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.
Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.
Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.
Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.
You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.
History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.
All necessary measures shall be taken to encourage and stimulate immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale.
History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
And somewhere from the dim ages of history the truth dawned upon Europe that the morrow would obliterate the plans of today.
History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.
I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself; I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist!
Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.
Throughout the history of the sport, the heavyweight champion has been... a reason to talk about boxing at the water cooler.
Throughout history government has served as a vehicle for the organization of hatred and oppression, benefiting no one except those who are ambitious and ruthless enough to gain control of it.
In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in.
At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.
There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace.
That is why the center of our faith isn't just a book, but a history of Salvation, and above all, it's about a person: Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh.
