Quotes About History

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world.

We learn how to kiss, or to drink, talk to our buddies-all the things that you can't really teach in social studies or history-we all learn them at the movies.

How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.

History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.

Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.

Harlem is filled with moments of history.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.

The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord.

History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

With my work, I try to delve into the several layers that compose the edifice of history, to take the shadows cast by this model of uniform development to try and understand what lies behind it.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself.

History is no more than memories refreshed.

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

New Orleans is one of the most exciting, incredible communities in the world. There's such a rich culture and history, and there are innumerable things to do.

The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things.

It is a very personal thing to me, because this is my basic voice, this is where I come from, and it is one of the oldest voice styles in human history.

We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class is the mover of history in this period.