Top 1200 Economic History Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

None of our republics would be anything if we weren't all together; but we have to create our own history - history of United Yugoslavia, also in the future.

The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

People are the common denominator of progress. So no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills,and the other familiar furniture of economic development. But we are coming to realize that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.

Data will always bear the marks of its history. That is human history held in those data sets.

The history of drawing is a history of 'realities'. Every age has its own conceptions, held to be true at that time, believed to be true for all times.

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

The new history is really ancient history newly discovered. Journalists are taking crash courses in the blood-drenched background of Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, North Ossetians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis.

That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us.

I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.

God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.

White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.

I love history, and I thought I knew history well, but I was shocked by how little I knew about it.

The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.

In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.

One of the worst days in America's history saw some of the bravest acts in Americans' history. We'll always honor the heroes of 9/11. And here at this hallowed place, we pledge that we will never forget their sacrifice.

If I hadn't become a professional basketball player, I would have become a history teacher. There's so much to learn from history.

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.

Communists liked history very much. It just had to be the right history. They liked to remember it selectively.

In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.

Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.

Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can.

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

I love the history of the sport and I want to keep keep building my history as a player with more records.

There’s no point to living life unless you make history and the best way to make history is to help others.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor-house is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a change to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon with he help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation. There is no guarantee against poverty equal to a job for every man. That is the primary purpose of the economic policies we advocate

If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.

The history of PR is... a history of a battle for what is reality and how people will see and understand reality.

The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history is written and told.

If I make history, I don't need to blab about it. My first concern is not 'making history,' it's myself and becoming world champion. That's all I care about.

I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but it's also true that a certain strand of Italy's film history has passed though me.

My opinion is that politicians should be humble in the face of history. And whenever history is a matter of debate, it should be left in the hands of historians and experts.

The history of missions is a history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of the world's evangelization hinges on prayer.

It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.

It's a great honor to make history but to make more history, I need to be healthy and injury-free.

It is important never to forget our history, but parts of our history are more appropriately displayed in museums, not on government property.

History has always fascinated me. Coming from a family that has it's own regal history, I always like places that have a rich past.

History will find some of you but not all of you. Because you can't know which of you will make history, you must do your best to be ready.

The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of global economic development. It's an acute symptom that is added to other more grave and already well-known ones, such as the continued imbalance between wealth and poverty, the scandal of hunger, the ecological emergency and the problem of unemployment, which has now become general. In this context a strategic re-launching of agriculture appears decisive.

If Google decided at any point to publish my search history, or your search history, or anyone's search history, there's a litany of things they could idea police you about, and if it was published, you would be publicly shamed. Everyone would be publicly shamed. But we trust Google, and we trust the people that run that company.

We simply want gun legislation in this country that allows law-abiding citizens to still own guns or prevents people with a history of mental illness or a history of a criminal background from owning a firearm.

If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.

The human community and individual people are more likely to hurt or undernourish children they think of as 'bodies' to be used. Cultures and people are more likely to raise children to be mere economic interns rather than fully developed humans if they see children as 'bodies' to be forced into certain economic and social molds.

White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world; it is called the history of the world.

Walter Benjamin has this notion of the angel of history and in a way that's paradoxical itself. We don't have angels in history anymore. We don't believe in these mythical creatures anymore.

History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology.

Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment, refugees, the bohemians, the artists - all of those people were crammed into densely populated neighborhoods and tenements. And as people climbed up the economic ladder they moved out, which really accelerated with the "white flight" phenomenon in the '60s and '70s.

All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

I'm interested in the history of the soul: the everyday life of the soul, the things that the big picture of history usually omits - or disdains.

It's not my intent to write definitive history. 'Dead Wake' isn't a definitive history of the sinking of the Lusitania. It's my account.

Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.

I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.