Top 1200 Human History Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

No such individual would find the Golden Rule surprising in any way because at its base lies the foundation of most human interactions and exchanges and it can be found in countless texts throughout recorded history and from around the world - a testimony to its universality.

Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.

History will record that the Citizens United decision is one of the worst in the history of our country.

It is easier and much more satisfying to rail against the Right than to suggest that we go back to Genesis 1 and study together. Liberals can be just as intolerant as fundamentalists, and we have arrived at a moment in human history when intolerance and hope are mutually exclusive.

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

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

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

Those of us who understand human history know the role taxation has played in shaping the destiny of mankind. The matter of taxes - more specifically, the right to tax - is clearly no stranger to controversy and has frequently served as the catalyst for revolutionary change.

Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in 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.

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

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.

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.

The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.

I'm not against knowing the history of white people in the U.S. - that's not the point. The point is that there's so much greater history. We don't know about Native Americans. Very basically, we don't know that much about African American history, except that they were enslaved. You only get bits and pieces.

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

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.

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

I do belong to the club which doesn't see a distinction between academic history and popular history.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other.

History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in love," characteristically, combs the appearances of the word, and of the particular lover's history, out of a random tangle and into a coherent plot.

Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

[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.

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

I can probably go down in history as the best backup point guard ever in NBA history.

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

Daddy loved our country, he loved our history. He was always talking about American history and telling us stories from American history, and loved our most treasured values of freedom, democracy, justice.

It's always good to be somewhere with some history, maybe that's England, which has a long history.

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

It takes a willful disregard of history to appreciate how white Southerners could look at the Confederate battle flag and see states' rights or a way of life or a tradition - and not one human being whipping another, which was a common occurrence.

There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul.

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

It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we are - and we start to believe it ourselves. Then, bent over from the weight of the negativity, we start to wither on the outside.

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.

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

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.

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

My mom was a history teacher when I was a kid, so I hated history out of rebellion.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

The sex drive is one of the most fundamental human urges, and throughout history, there have been laws regulating what is considered acceptable sexual behavior. In the past century, the law has had trouble keeping up with changing social and moral standards.

We are at a point in human evolution when human solidarity on a global scale is absolutely vital for the survival of the human species. That means understanding that ... we are all co-inhabitants of this planet.

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

The history of Oregon is partially the history of a state that legislated not wanting black people around.

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

The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.

All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the Galaxy ... could really understand one another. Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.

I see history in Pentateuch. I see revealed truth in it. I see in it human holiness as much as divine inspiration. Wherever you open it, any page, you know that you are in the presence of something that exists nowhere else.

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

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

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

You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery...

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.