Quotes About History

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Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

Unfortunately, the proximity of art and history has little influence on those who govern

It's like Jack Kennedy," DeMarco said to Emma. "All the rumors about Joe Kennedy being a bootlegger and having ties to the mob and getting rich on insider trading never really hurt Jack. It sounds like the same thing with Stephanie. By the time she jumped onto the political stage, her old man was dead, his money had been laundered clean, she had nothing to do with his past life.

a county with a unique history of people starving and mortifying themselves for higher causes and principles, a political reflex that has twitched steadily down the years and seems rooted in some aggravated sense of sinfulness because, like no other county it is blistered with shrines and grottoes and prayer houses and hermitages just as it is crossed with pilgrim paths and penitential ways

This is a grave. There is no honor here in broken tools and old bones, only in the deeds of our children.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

Life doesn't just happen it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here.

I am insisting that you'd better know how to spell my name before you send me a book. And you definitely should know something about my history and the kinds of books I'm looking to publish.

Spend a few hours every week studying American history, human nature, and economic theory. Start with "Economics in One Lesson." Then try Keynes. Then Hayek. Then Marx. Then Hegel. Develop a worldview that you can articulate as well as defend. Test your theory with people who disagree with you. Debate. Argue. Adjust your philosophy as necessary.

My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

Roswell, New Mexico, the town where an alien spaceship had supposedly crashed and been covered up by the Air Force. HOME OF THE MOST BIZARRE CONSPIRACY IN U.S. HISTORY, a sign on one of the tourist traps said.

TO reach some major goal or milestone of achievement and sustain it, you will need a solid sense of who you are: your own history, your ideas and aspirations, your strengths and weaknesses, the values and standards you hold, and other things which make you you. Who you have been is a key to who you might become or what you might need to overcome, to establish your special place on the planet.

It was impossible for the human mind to suspect that it was itself the sole creator of the divine world. It found the divine world before it; it found it as history, as tradition, as a sentiment, as a habit of thought; and it necessarily made it the object of its loftiest speculations. Thus was born metaphysics, and thus were developed and perfected the divine ideas, the basis of Spiritualism.

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

History teaches us, however, that when the times are ripe for change and the government refuses or is unable to change, either society starts to decay or a revolution begins.

The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole people; especially when the former is the result of the observations of a mature mind upon itself, and has been written without any egotistical desire of arousing sympathy or astonishment. Rousseau's Confessions has precisely this defect – he read it to his friends.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable.

The struggle against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.