Us History Quotes
A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.
I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.
The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.
There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ... number seems to be more like a verb (to triple).
Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.
It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet.
A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.
I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.
Economic history is the most fundamental branch of history; not the most important. Foundations exist to carry better things.
History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.
Haiti was a French colony, but in 1804, the slaves rose up and defeated the French and formed the Republic. For the last 200 years, Haiti has had a very unfortunate history.
It is difficult to discuss... history.. it is more difficult to talk about today.. simple things…
If you look at the history of advertising, most of them were Jews, so it was only a matter of time before 'Mad Men' explored that area of advertising.
Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and not possessing a valid culture or history of its own.
I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.
In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'
Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.
First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.
People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it's usually not their fault they were reduced to getting their education from school.
America is a new country, and maybe patriotism helps Americans create unity, since it is a melting pot. But nationalism in Europe has a strong history, as you may know.
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes.
In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.
The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.
In college I had to major in something, so I was like, "Okay I like art history, so I will major in that." I never really had any ambitions to work in museums or anything, though.
How real is history? Is it just an enormous soup so full of disparate ingredients that it is uncharacterizable?
Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.
A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.
We may pretend we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.
I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.
You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard of, doing work.
The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.
The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it, the 21st century will be the most interesting, exciting, peaceful era in history.
The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.