Quotes About History

The Resurrection is most clearly needed and most clearly revealed in those communities that are constantly seeking to correct and transform the world through the wisdom and power of the Word of God made flesh in their lives and actions in history.

In a period of less than 150 years, to progress from slavery to Pennsylvania Avenue speaks volumes about this family and our nation. Distracted by the rush of our everyday life, we might shrug it off today, but 100 years from now, historians will be discussing this precedent.

The truth is often so much more complicated than the digest version that's handed down to us.

Nothing ever begins when you think it does. You think you can trace something back to its roots but roots by definition never end. There's always something that came before: soil and water and seeds that were born of trees that were born of yet more seeds.

these are the regions where populations of artists and radicals in the 1930s and 1940s morphed into heavily Latino populations in the 1950s and 1960s.

Their fierce response was a classic example of what is known as the "Semmelweis reflex"—the reflexive rejection of new paradigms in medicine

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

Marx was an astronomer of history, not an astrologer.

every Chinese person is familiar with Kongzi, or 'Master Kong', as Confucius is known in Chinese.

A need for many candles may arise in every nation's history to light up the darkness in the country. Most of the time, the youth is the very candles themselves!

A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history.

Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!

Do not bother about to be recorded in history, try not to become a thing of the past!

History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!

Human history's the most funny and yet the most tragic discovery will be the discovery of the religious people that all religions are man-made! And this childish discovery will enable the pious to make an intellectual jump in upwards direction. The devout will turn into a progressive man and the history will flow faster in the progressive direction.

Man is a parrot in the House of History; he listens and then he repeats the same crap over and over!

Man is full of energy; it is up to him how to use it! You can use your energy to do harm to people or to produce art and science; or you can use it for chattering or for deceiving people! By looking at the human history, we can easily say that man is guilty of wasting his energy mostly for stupid things!

Old houses are full with memories and that's why they resist to collapse!

Once upon a time millions applauded and supported Adolf Hitler; ignorant masses often cannot see the simple truths and evidently they do not have the ability to see the very clear ends! The stupidity of the ignorant masses has been proven thousands of times in the history! Each time they follow the wrong leader and in the end fall in the cesspool!

Past has a very great superiority over the future: The future may not exist; but the past existed!

Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.

Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!

The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history!

The tattoo of the History is permanent; once a nation or a man is marked by this tattoo, erasing is impossible.