Quotes About History

The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.

History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.

I consider myself a person who comes from a Muslim culture. In any case, I would not say that I'm an atheist. So I'm a Muslim who associates historical and cultural identification with this religion.

Religion dies hard in the Irish.

The thing about religion is that it's the first and the worst. The worst because it's the first.

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

I think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars. A rabbi is just a scholar.

The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.

Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.

My own view on religion is . . . It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and . . . to chronicle eclipses . . . These two services I am prepared to acknowledge.

Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous.

Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.

somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.

Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil

Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew.

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.

The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.

Yes I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.

Racism and religious bigotry are two essential pieces of baggage mankind carries as it moves from one century to the next.

Religion is the way we honour our ancestors' errors.

There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril. [The World Is My Home (1991)]

Who doesn't respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future

Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.