Us History Quotes

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

But one sound always rose above the clamor of busy life and, no matter how much of a tintinnabulation, was never confused and, fora moment lifted everything into an ordered sphere: that of the bells.

The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know about in a way that they can understand.

You grew up way too fast and now there's nothing to believe; and re-runs all become our history.

History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.

My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.

The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history.

Never, in the history of the world, has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect.

A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.

Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.

Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.

Well, I may not be the youngest candidate in this race. But I will be the youngest woman President in the history of the United States!

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy.

It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.

History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way of institutionalizing them.

if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

Your history is animal. Your future is divinity. Right now, you are like a pendulum, swinging between the two.

Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.

The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.

In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.

History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought.

History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the jury) that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.

I'm the ultimately responsible person in this organization. Other people can pass the buck to me, but I can't pass the buck to anyone else.

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

As a general rule, no one should ever be allowed to say there is no history of racial tension here, because that sentence has never been true anywhere on Earth.

When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?

. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History.

History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.

The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it.

We are all fools in love.

History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.

No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

History is an argument without end.

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.