Quotes About Society

Fashion is a part of the world and part of history. It's not a meaningless swirl of meaningless clothes. They (clothes) reflect the times.

History is the study of the world's crime

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

Where the women go, the culture goes.

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

History is at once freedom and necessity.

If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference.

The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

In America, you don't even have proper holidays. It's really one of the most prosperous slave societies in history. People work their asses off all year long and get two weeks off! It's incredible.

The history of literature is the history of the human mind.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

History without politics descends to mere Literature.

Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it's just a few idiots. Isn't. It's the country.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.