Quotes About History

Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place.

When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.

For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.

None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.

The history of pop is a progression of underground styles going mainstream, so there's nothing unusual about the White Stripes or Franz Ferdinand selling records.

If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.

A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.

In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.

It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.

History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.

All she's caught is fleas! She's a medicine cat, not a warrior. She should be helping me, not trying to pretend that her entire history vanished on the day the truth came out.

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

The trial of Ernst Zundel has gone down in Canadian history.

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.

The Chinese have a long history of slaughtering each other without bothering their neighbors.

History takes place between the Fall and the Apocalypse, with a narrow escape route called Salvation.

The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.