Top 1200 History And Culture Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history

I'm a history person; I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.

History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.

Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history at all.

I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture - particularly in black male culture - and to help people to see that there's room enough for everyone.

The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish, into a massive grave. This is why initiatives to revive Jewish culture in Poland is so important.

History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.

At the University of California at Berkeley, my interests broadened from military history to diplomatic history and other disciplines.

One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.

It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture.

When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For the old culture has its greatness and goodness behind it, and an historical education forces one to admit that it can never again be fresh.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

Remember the lessons of history - if we don't learn from history, we're bound to repeat it.

Spanish is actually my first language, growing up, and I understand the culture. I understand the culture; I understand what the people want.

Culture outperforms strategy every time; and culture with strategy is unbeatable.

In Afghanistan, we have had a history of very strong women, and we need to reclaim that history and talk about it.

Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.

This - where we are now - is where a culture gets to, when it has chosen, for many years, banality over intelligence, the literal over the immaterial or complex, materialism over spirituality. This is the result of many years of disrespecting the intellectual project - of a collective acceptance of the idea that thinking and reasoning and reading deeply in difficult text and being respectful of history are somehow "wimpy" or secondary.

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.

I've always been fascinated with the history of the Plains Indians and the history of the American Indian Movement in the '70s.

I love things that have one foot in history - I was going to be a history professor before I sold out and went into TV.

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.

Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually, much of human history is up for grabs. The further back you go, the more that the history that's taught in the schools and universities begins to look like some kind of faerie story.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Black history is part of American history, and it should be treated as such.

Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture.

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

History is our guide, and without a knowledge of history, we are lost!

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

Zef is the underbelly of the Afrikaans culture, but it also, like, is Afrikaans culture.

A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide.

We've got so much Korean culture and so much Western culture in us.

You want to be a part of something that is going to change history or make history or be bigger than yourself.

The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men.

My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.

Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.

Wrestling has its own culture. Every culture - Japan, Samoan, Indian, Korean - has wrestling, and wrestling is a worldwide mix.

I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we'd been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don't think people really saw this guy for what he was.

God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family.

Success in math and the hard sciences, far from being a matter of gender, is almost entirely dependent on culture - a culture that teaches girls math isn't cool and no one will date them if they excel in physics.

The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.

To learn the history of the banjo is to recover the actual history of America.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.

[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.

The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.

Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.

Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

The Culture of Complaint... We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with the desire to blame others for misfortunes and to get some form of compensation into the bargain.