Us History Quotes

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world.

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.

History is the science of people.

The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.

To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood India. My vocation was culture, not sainthood.

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

Look back at history - those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.

History is past politics, and politics is present history.

The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.

Pour faire de l'histoire, il faut savoir compter.

Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.

Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

Seven years is a short time in the history of a country's democracy. But in this short time, people of Bhutan have developed faith in the institutions of democracy.

We learn how to kiss, or to drink, talk to our buddies-all the things that you can't really teach in social studies or history-we all learn them at the movies.

It is quite clear that history will record that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister this country has had since Churchill.

Brezhnev wasn't a minus for the history of our country, he was a huge plus, He laid a foundation for the country's economics and agriculture.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.

Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

My wife would probably say I'm the messiest person in the history of husbands.

Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.

Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.

No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.

I'm extremely happy about music altogether, and the history that I've made. How I changed the world, music-wise, music over the internet and stuff like that.

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

Yes, your family history has some sad chapters. But your history doesn't have to be your future. The generational garbage can stop here and now.

How beautiful that after 2,000 years, no one can outdo "God is love." It's the most perfectly concise, hopeful phrase in history.

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it’s art, that’s great, but I’ll let history decide.

LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.

Psilocybin, tryptamine, is in my opinion the means to eliminating the future by becoming cognizant of the architecture of eternity, which is modulating time and causing history, essentially.

The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself.

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents: Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.

Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.

A piece of football history. A unique coach [Sir Alex Ferguson], among the greatest of all-time.

The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things.

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

It is never a waste of time to study the history of a word.

What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.

History is no more than memories refreshed.