Top 1200 Modern History Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

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

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

I can pick out people in this city to follow. I can be in a show at the Museum of Modern Art, my space in the Museum of Modern Art is my mailbox, my mail is delivered there. Whenever I want mail, I have to go through this city to get my mail.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history

Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common and catastrophic fault. While providing us with a bountiful supply of food, with great industrial plants, with high-speed transportation, and with military weapons of unprecedented power, they threaten our very survival.

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

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

... the modern state masks itself in moral ideologies which obscure its actual conduct. One of the most compelling and insidious of these ideologies is the doctrine of natural rights. It was to secure these rights that the modern state was invented in the first place, and it is impossible, especially for Americans, not to be seduced by the doctrine. But it is nonetheless a philosophical superstition.

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

[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.

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

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

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

I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.

Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.

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

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

Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can eliminate poverty: it is also a society in which knowledge plays a part wholly different from that which it played in earlier social forms, and which indeed possesses a quite different type of knowledge. Modern science is inconceivable outside an industrial society: but modern industrial society is equally inconceivable without modern science. Roughly, science is the mode of cognition of industrial society, and industry is the ecology of science.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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