Us History Quotes

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.

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.

History is the science of people.

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

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

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

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.

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

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Here is a shared memory that we didn't share, forgot to share, for almost ninety years.

The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.

Skepticism is history's bedfellow.

Do what experts since the dawn of recorded history have told you you must do: pay the price by becoming the person you want to become. It's not nearly as difficult as living unsuccessfully.

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.

Unless we confront our history, unless we deal with it and move forward, not with recrimination, and move forward then we're always going to have the problems.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

In every domain of art, a work that corresponds to the need of its day carries a message of social and cultural value. It is the artist who crystallizes his age ... who fixes his time in history.

I believe that it is appropriate for young people in society to revisit Malcolm's journey and his role in history.

History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.

Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.

The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

We need a war every 10 years, so we can stay match fit in case the Germans try again.

That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to revise and rewrite history in their own image.

The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.

All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and rendering language insensible.

The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness.

For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.

I spent six years at United and I owe them everything that I am today. I made history at United and won many trophies. It was a pleasure to play at Old Trafford.

Half of writing history is hiding the truth.

I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.

What man is, only his history tells.

History-writing is not a visit of condolence.

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history.

What man is, only history tells.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?

Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.

The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.

Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

It's fun to be a part of pop history. Anytime you can be referenced in that respect it can be cool.