Quotes About History

In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven't done anything bad.

I think history shows us that there is not one credible credential that has come from the for-profit reality, and that is because the for-profit reality is inherently motivated to maximize the level of people that take it.

Understanding history means knowing what motivates you.

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

Good history is good story-telling. And good story-telling demands empathy; it requires understanding different actors, differing motivations, competing goals.

The thing is that I've known the guys from Motley Crue longer than just about everybody.

We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.

Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.

Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day.

As Edmund Burke said, more than two centuries ago, "In history a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from past errors and infirmities of mankind." But he warned that the past could also be a means of "keeping alive, or reviving, dissensions and animosities.

Under these escalating wartime income tax rates, the number of people reporting taxable incomes of more than $300,000— a huge sum in the money of that era— declined from well over a thousand in 1916 to fewer than three hundred in 1921. The total amount of taxable income earned by people making over $300,000 declined by more than four-fifths during those years.[11

An estimated 60,000 out of the 80,000 Herero were in fact killed before the general was recalled to Berlin.122

The old are not really smarter than the young, in terms of sheer brainpower. It is just that we have already made the kinds of mistakes that the young are about to make, and we have already suffered the consequences that the young are going to suffer if they disregard the record of the past.

Have we reached the ultimate state of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?

Out of 160 physicians in Nigeria in the early 1950s, 76 were Yorubas, 49 were Ibos and only one was Hausa-Fulani.

1870, Britain produced 32 percent of all the manufactured goods in the world, followed by the United States at 23 percent and Germany at 13 percent.

1950, Britain's share was down to 3 percent and that of the United States was 82 percent.

el éxito de los políticos no depende de que aprendan sus lecciones sobre historia o política, sino que depende mucho más de que tengan la capacidad de actuar en función de lo que es ampliamente creído por el público y los medios, lo que puede incluir teorías conspirativas o la creencia de que los precios más altos se deben al engaño o a la avaricia.

In understanding Black Africa, geography is more important than history. Fernand Braudel

The world's first university chair in engineering was founded in Glasgow in 1840.2'x

slavery was a worldwide institution, entrenched on every inhabited continent, subjugating people of every color, language, and religion

WW2 films on the history channel show the desperate courage of the men and women who fought the battles. What a painful contrast with the cheap cowardice of the politicians who got them into such a mess in the first place.

internal disunity made Ireland vulnerable to conquest by a united Britain.

Between 50,000 and 100,000 Huguenots fled to Britain from France in the seventeenth century, particularly after revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which had previously guaranteed religious freedom to Protestants.67