Quotes About History

Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.

If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!

No generation can escape history.

Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it.

There are some people in occult history who warned against using the Ouija Board, who said: "This is a dangerous door to the unconscious. Don't approach this thing."

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff.

The past has always been the handmaid of authority.

There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I find that really problematic.

[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.

Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment decisions that could potentially derail a successful retirement.

I think America is amazing for its landscape and its history. California is beautiful, New York is beautiful, but when you're a gypsy at heart, it probably suits you to be traveling.

Presidents come and go. History comes and goes, but principles endure.

Our past has gone into history.

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.

There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit like sitting in the Renaissance, but multiplied a thousand-fold.

The use of thermodynamics in biology has a long history rich in confusion.

History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.

Things look different when history is seen as His-story.

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.