Quotes About History

It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

If you learn music, you'll learn history. If you learn music, you'll learn mathematics. If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to learn.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

We have a pride of who we are as Latinos, regardless if we're Puerto Rican, Dominican, Venezuelan, and we're very proud of our customs and our history and our traditions and who we are.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.

I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to the abattoir.

Fashion is a part of the world and part of history. It's not a meaningless swirl of meaningless clothes. They (clothes) reflect the times.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

The US wants to subdue Russia, to solve US problems at Russia's expense. No one in history ever managed to do this to Russia, and no one ever will.

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.