Us History Quotes

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

Only the vanquished remember history.

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we ignore it as a moment which, at the time, is happening.

Dates are convenient hooks on which we can hang our memories of events. But history is all about people - people like you and me who did things to change the world.

Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.

Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.

You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

All history is a lie!

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.

Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take possession, no matter how many times we pint over it.

You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically.

I shall be an Attila to Venice.

My deep relations with fashion started in Paris in 1980s, when I was appointed head of The Fashion History course at French Esmod fashion school, the biggest and the best in those years in Paris.

There is a divinity awaiting entry into human history at the threshold of our heart's doors.

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way.

Ronaldo is better than George Best and Denis Law, who were two brilliant and great players in the history of United.

Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.

My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.

Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.

I think it's harder to avoid reflection on those larger patterns of history or society when they so insistently call into question your right to exist.

The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does.

Art, when destroyed can never be replaced, yet history repeats itself.

[B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history as lived.

[History]... is nothing else but the rise and disappearance of races.

history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness.

I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasnt a big solo artist.

Journalism is the first draft of history

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

People are educated into the fact that as a people we stand a better chance of knowing how to work the law if we know the history of the law and the history of our people's relationship with it.

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

If you don't learn about each other, you do not understand each other, and you don't hide warts and all, both sides, then you're forever going to repeat history.

The Henty books provide training in history and in many of the highest aspects of human character... American young people should read not a few Henty books, but all 99 of them.

I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

The history of pop is a progression of underground styles going mainstream, so there's nothing unusual about the White Stripes or Franz Ferdinand selling records.

If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.

In an attempt to make things easier for myself, which is the basis for all of history's worst decisions [...].

It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.

The entire sweep of human history from the dark ages into the unknown future was considerably less important at the moment than the question of a certain girl and her feelings toward him.

A racist is a man who believes in history, genetics, and his eyes!

Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.