Quotes About History

under the decree and guidance of the great King Sejong.

They were called turtle-boats and they were the first iron warships in history.

It had to do with the way women throughout time has known the feel of love when it came to them.

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was and what its brutal legacy still is.

It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.

The only argument you can make against having Confederate flag as spectacularly shown as it is around the south is the Nazis. I mean, it would be like having the swastika flag...

The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century.

The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the opposition of the State.

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.

It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.

If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I'd choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.

Besides prostitution, magic is one of the oldest art forms that exist.

The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.

We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.