Quotes About History

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

What better preparation for a history which seeks to bring societies to life and to understand that life than to have really lived, commanded men, suffered with them and shared their joys.

I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.

When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.

The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.

One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.

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.

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

A black man will be elected President of the United States. I'm sorry, that's in the year 10,000.

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

The fall of man stands a lie before Beethoven, a truth before Hitler.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

Every problem in history is due to men, so I'm basically asking for humanity to nest itself in a feminine culture, probably for the next 1,000 years.

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

Let no man write my epitaph. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.

All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.