Quotes About History

Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.

Food is interesting to me because it's a way of understanding culture and societies and history. I would never write about food just as food. Just like I would never write about baseball just as baseball.

History shows that societies where opportunity is safeguarded tend to be societies that are good international citizens.

Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all societies eventually will.

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever?

History and socio-economic inequality and all those things had, like, borne down upon my family and my community and really sort of narrowed our choices.

I love seeing what people are eating. It's a great way of looking at what is similar and what is different about people. It's sociology and anthropology and history rolled into one.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

Being a woman has always been a powerful thing, where history has sometimes dictated otherwise, but I believe that a woman can be compassionate, sensitive, soft, kind.

The Wahhabi movement is a form of radical Islam that people here say did not exist before in Bosnia, where Islam had co-existed with other major religions and was much softer and more liberal.

While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible.

The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before.

But then I realized, I think maybe we're too preoccupied with the past and too preoccupied with the idea that nationalism and sense of identity belongs to the soil, to the land, and isn't somehow within ourselves and among each other.

For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black man's humanity was not recognized.

A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.

When I looked into the lives of the Chinese saints, I discovered that many of them had died during the Boxer Rebellion, a war that occurred on Chinese soil in the year 1900.

You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.

My grandfather sold insurance to King Farouk of Egypt. And my savta's parents helped found the city of Tel Aviv in 1906. Our family name used to be Mizrahi, but they changed it to Mayron, which means 'happy water' in Hebrew.

There is no one like Toto in history in that we were both successful as session musicians and also had a band that sold so many million records.

I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job.

My parents, they grew up in a time when there was war in Korea. And my grandmother, her husband, my grandfather, was a soldier and he died in the war. A lot of people in that generation, they didn't go to schools. My grandmother couldn't read; she didn't finish beyond elementary school.

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.