Quotes About History

continuous revolution had three sources: ideology, tradition, and Chinese nationalism.

It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.

It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.

What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.

My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

Legend a lie that has attained the dignity of age.

There is no evidence that the complete head shaves we did in the past, which made the patients look like convicts, had any effect on infection rates, which had been the ostensible reason for doing them. I suspect the real – albeit unconscious – reason was that dehumanizing the patients made it easier for the surgeons to operate.

the French surgeon René Leriche observed, we all carry cemeteries within ourselves.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.