Quotes About History

It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.

History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made.

I feel like D.C. is one of the places in America that really holds on to history. The monuments inspire me, especially at night.

The whole history of the 20th century is a history of resistance groups which are either nationalist or, in large parts of the Muslim word, religious groups.

One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.

There hasn't been a military force like the United States of America in the history of the world.

We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

I suppose, as a politician, I should be content, for the Canada Pension Plan certainly put my name in Canada's history books, and in italics.

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes.

Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.

I realized that part of that anger was because I didn't know who I was and where I came from. I didn't know my history.

I am the history of the rejection of who I am

New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

I read more and more and I came across this character, Caroline Weldon. Sometimes in history, you find these people that no one would dare create. They're too mad.

It's not often as an actor you get to be involved with a project that seems to be on the right side of history.