Us History Quotes

Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

Well I have a drug history and a public drinking problem and I am not the healthiest guy. So they just ran that I died of a drug overdose.

History is the memory of things said and done.

History is full of surprises.

History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing from our Creator.

There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation.

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

The past is always a rebuke to the present.

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!

Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

Life is not at all what you might think it to be A simple tale where each thing has its history It's much more than its scuffle and anything goes Both evil and good, subject to the same laws.

Patriotism ruins history.

I have tried and I cannot find, either in scripture or in history, a strong-willed individual whom God used greatly until He allowed them to be hurt deeply.

that's me. ancient history." [Poseidon to Paul]

People who say that violence doesn't accomplish anything have not read history. I don't celebrate that reality, but there you have it.

It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be seen as parts of a single social process.

Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice.

My aim is to go down in history as one of the best.

We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power.

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.

Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.

Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.

History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

One phrase you don't want kicking off your obituary is, Never, in the long history of bungee jumping.

History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he thereby invests with a deeper reality.

For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to each other.

I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.

Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work.

All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

History is a vast early warning system.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area.

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

An entire mythology is stored within our language.