Us History Quotes

I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal and death metal. There's a great history to Norwegian black metal. That music is very dark and violent, but it's also beautiful.

Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism.

The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.

By sight and observation and thought, with the help of the camera, and the addition of the date of the year, we can hold fast the history of the world.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

Could America exist without an income tax? The idea seems radical, yet in truth America did just fine without a federal income tax for the first 126 years of her history.

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.

I find I like it too much.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living.

Its been nearly 1.5 years since the last PLUS 8 record, but it seemed fitting that this record in particular, made by a skinny white kid from Canada, became part of the labels collection and history.

Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.

We have a Democratic Party that cannot defend the American people from the worst Republican Party in history because it's a Democratic Party of war and Wall Street.

The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

The progress of history is to take the impossible and turn it into the possible.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

Destiny and history are untidy.

History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.

The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.

I do not love fiction, I love history.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality.

Never in history has distance meant less.

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.

I don't care about going down in history as a great bull rider or bronc rider. I hope people will remember me as a great cowboy.

It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.

People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.

s past history and stand alone.

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

Knowing your history can give you the tools to shape your future.

In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.