Quotes About History

We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form.

Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act.

When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.

Lambeau was always special, and so was Milwaukee.

I don't mind a bit of cricket, but it has to be something massive like the Ashes.

To me, it's mind-boggling to think that homosexuality was forbidden up until 1967.

Back in the '60s, '70s, my mindset and the way I play would be perfect.

George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.

I'd worked with Sam Barnett before in 'The History Boys' and he's a dear friend of mine.

My father and brothers were coal miners.

I come from a family of coal miners.

Even getting a college degree does not guarantee a minimal knowledge of U.S. history.

'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away.

Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining.

Apartheid was baked hard in the mining industry because that's where it originated.

From the beginning of this century, for a decade as chief minister of Gujarat and for just over four years as India's PM, Modi has made an indelible mark in the annals of our history.

I have been in the politics for the last 40 years. I became chief minister in 1995 and worked in the NDA and UPA. I have seen it all.

It has always been inevitable that, living as a small minority among a Christian majority, some Jews would convert to Christianity.

I was among the people in the Superdome. I knew what was going on every minute. I did not have air conditioning nor shower facilities. I made decisions based upon facts and not what I thought was going to happen. So history will judge me based upon those actions.

If I make a film about now, the minute it was done, it wouldn't be about now; it'd be about then.

for one hundred years people have believed that the 1886 case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad did in fact conclude that "corporations are persons." But this book will show that the Court never stated this: it was added by the court reporter who wrote the introduction to the decision, a commentary called a headnote.

The facts are always frightening, and in all of us fear of the facts is constantly at work, constantly being fuelled; but this morbid fear must not lead us to conceal the facts and so to falsify the whole of human history -- which is of course part of natural history -- and pass it on in falsified form just because it is customary to do so, when we know that all history is falsified and always transmitted in falsified form.

If we humans can so easily wash the blood of our fellow humans off our hands, then what hope is there for sparing our future generations from a repeat of the genocides and mass killings of the past?

while it was important not to forget what happened to us in the Holocaust, it was equally important not to hold the descendants of the perpetrators responsible for what was done to us, lest the cycle of hate and violence never end.