Top 1200 World History Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

What's so interesting is taking kind of all these horror tropes and really finding black history and American history to layer on top of it.

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

When you go back and look at American history, it's not terribly different from Canadian history. If you weren't self-reliant on the prairie, you wouldn't survive.

Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

I don't like the idea of nationalism, but on the other hand, I do see that there is a difference between British art, German art and Chinese art. This is because of the history, because each country has different history and each country reads and teaches that history differently.

The most widely discussed formulation of [the One World model] was the "end of history" thesis advanced by Francis Fukuyama. "We may be witnessing," Fukuyama argued, "the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government." The future will be devoted not to great exhilarating struggles over ideas but rather to resolving mundane economic and technical problems. And, he concluded rather sadly, it will all be rather boring.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history.

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

I knew nothing of American History because I didn't pay attention to American History in school. Because I did not see myself in American History in school.

I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds.

The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

History takes time. History makes memory.

Poetry is this gorgeous, complex history rendered in verse and song, a blueprint that can lead you back into the world after you've walked into air.

I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.

Whenever one pulls the trigger in order to rectify history's mistake, one lies. For history makes no mistakes, since it has no purpose.

My favorite thing is talking to people about history - that's what I like doing. The sort of history I do isn't just for professional historians.

When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures.

Through the years, Madam Walker has certainly become a staple of anything that has to do with black history, women's history and entrepreneurship.

The most important history is the history we make today.

I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical a fact as the rise and fall of Rome.

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.

History is so deep, especially black history, so I have a lot to learn.

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.

The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev.

The history of mankind is the history of money losing value.

I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

I want to put my name in history. I love history.

The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

[Read] anything but history,.. for history must be false.

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

Money, titles, belts - you're not going to take with you when you die. History stays forever. That's why I decided to go for history.

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.

The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.

The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.

I realized we were going through one of the greatest revolutions that ever hit the history of the world - the information age - and I wanted to be a part of it.

Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of organisms. Biology thus includes natural history, and much else besides.

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.

If you were to do the world championship of victimhood in modern times, then the finals would probably be between Jews and Palestinians. I think the Jews win: we, Isralians, go from the Spanish Inquisition to pogroms to the fake Protocols of the Elders of Zion to World War II and the Holocaust - it's a horrible history. And if you look at the Palestinian world, victimized by every entity in the Middle East, they were massacred in every country. I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is this fear of genocide.