Quotes About History

Thanks to Eleanor, Roosevelt was probably the only president in American history who had any direct familiarity with urban poverty.

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

Piatra face ca un mormânt ori o cas? s? dureze mai mult decât este firesc. Ceea ce dureaz? mai mult? vreme devine muzeu ori închisoare. Ajunge o povar?. Un obstacol. Împiedic? s? se dezvolte o via?? nou?.

blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books.

KENnEDY SHOT. OSWALD SHOT TOO.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

Misssions and the California Mission system should not be regarded as a symbol of a golden era in California's history. Missions should be regarded for what they were, as death camps- where people were enslaved, tortured and murdered.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"-- they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity. (p. 107-108)

You can't really move forward until you look back. [From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]

Either history is really governed by laws, and in that case a truly human-activity is impossible, except perhaps in a technical sense; or human beings really make their own history, and then the task of theory will not be directed to discovering 'laws', but to the elucidation of the conditions with in which human activity unfolds.

By morning an immense fleet of five thousand ships would stand off the invasion beaches of Normandy.

Whatever is unknown is taken for marvelous; but now the limits of Britain are laid bare.

What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.

Per secoli gli italiani non sono riusciti ad avere nemmeno una memoria comune. Una storia così frammentata non gli ha permesso di elaborare una forma politica all'altezza della cultura, della civiltà, delle straordinarie personalità che sono riusciti a esprimere.

Quanto più aumena la consapevolezza storica, tanto più si rinvigoriscono il pensiero critico e la vita democratica di un paese, e i fondamentalismi di qualunque tipo dimostrano la propria debolezza culturale e la devastazione mentale che operano.

there was no way to keep from knowing. Often in the evening, turning the dial on the radio, we would pick up a voice from Germany. The voice did not talk, or even shout. It screamed. Oddly,

I became the first licensed woman watchmaker in Holland. And

way back in 1927, Willem had written in his doctoral thesis, done in Germany, that a terrible evil was taking root in that land. Right at the university, he said, seeds were being planted of a contempt for human life such as the world had

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

Some things belong only to the people who lived them.

The unity of divine revelation, of the various dispensations, is found in the goal of history, the kingdom of God. And since this kingdom is centered in the person and work of Jesus Christ, the dispensational unity of Scripture and of history is Christological as much as it is eschatological.