Quotes About History

Everything we suffer has been suffered before, everything that gives us joy has been enjoyed before. Nothing is new: but that doesn't make it any easier to suffer.

What will matter in fifty years in economic history is poverty and its ending, and in political history what will matter is tyranny and its ending. If poverty and tyranny are ended, the rest follows.

Although some investors may assume that higher inflation leads to lower stock performance, US market history shows that nominal annual stock returns are unrelated to inflation.

Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ's body.

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.

He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.

New Rome will be destroyed by the attacks of new vandals.

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.

they will later reveal truth after history has digested the lie.

The anatomy of what happens to each of us is shadowed and affected by what came before, and I was conditioned as a child to live with fear and worry.

I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

like the Irish, if we have no external enemy we fight amongst ourselves, and this has been our custom for more than a century.

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

L]e philosophe n'a jamais tué de prêtres et le prêtre a tué beaucoup de philosophes... (The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.)

I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?

L'adoption de l'anglais a, évidemment, entraîné une critique importante : celle de privilégier la langue du colonisateur au détriment de celle des colonisés. Cette accusation a couru tout au long des décennies, mais elle repose sur un vœu qui est souvent resté pieux, celui de promouvoir les littératures en langues vernaculaires.

Que el PRI creó instituciones pero también pervirtió sus objetivos.

So the Next time September 17 rolls around, eat a hot dog, watch some fireworks, and celebrate Constitution Day - that fateful date in 1787 when thirty-nine sweaty men dressed in stockings signed their names to the United States Constitution.

Despite their marriage license and four children, black couples were not permitted to live as man and wife on the Reservation.

Q: How many people are working in Oak Ridge? A: About half of them.

Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of T.N.T.

The most ambitious war project in military history rested squarely on the shoulders of tens of thousands of ordinary people, many of them young women.

The more she thought about it, the more she realized: Oak Ridgers had kept the most amazing secret ever.