Quotes About History

Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction can be profitable to none but such as live by it.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

It's fun to be a part of pop history. Anytime you can be referenced in that respect it can be cool.

In the past there were too many portraits of Chairman Mao in China. They were hung everywhere. That was not proper and it didn't really show respect for Chairman Mao.

Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.

With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.

Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.

Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in the past. On the contrary, I believe there will be a gradual diminution in this respect.

If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.

I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment.

I have great respect for the past.

Senator Walsh has a long history of fighting for Montanans, both at home and in combat. He deserves respect for his courage on our behalf.

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

It was the most romantic plane ever made.

In France, you have 900 years of romantic love going back to the troubadours and minstrels that wrote stories of Lancelot and Guinevere. You have gallantry at the highest level.

I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened.

The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.

There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend.

It's hard not to be romantic about baseball

When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language