Quotes About History

Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is.

Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.

The longest suicide note in history.

I think it is appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nation's history, among them the high value Americans have traditionally placed on equality of opportunity.

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history.

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.

History shows you don't know what the future brings.

The historian amputates reality.

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind

The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.

One can argue that in the context of history a few years do not matter. But we live in an age in which every moment counts heavily and the price of delay is human lives.