Quotes About History

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.

All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.

Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.

Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.

History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.

Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]

Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.

Coolidge's stat was so low; he's ranked in the bottom half of presidents. What I found when I encountered this man was the leader I might like to see today.

The man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents.

I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when the men had all the power and the women had none of it.

A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.

As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.

Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history.

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.