Quotes About History

Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong.

if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history.

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing.

The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom.

The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

Nowhere inthe annals of history does the record show a people delivered from bondage bypatience alone.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War.

Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.

Study the history of revival. God has always sent revival in the darkest days. Oh, for a mighty, sweeping revival today!

Read about the history of the place that we live in and stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.

Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

For the first time in history, my community has had to use air conditioners. Imagine that, air conditioners in the Arctic.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.