Quotes About History

I draw a lot of inspiration from different time periods.

My friends were dropping like flies, and the government wasn't doing anything. You don't watch an entire generation take water hoses and dogs on the front line during the '60s or watch another generation perish from AIDS and then get to drive around in big cars and do nothing.

I've lived in London more or less permanently since the 1950s.

We all need permission to do science, but for reasons that are deeply ingrained in history, this permission is more often given to men than to women.

Machicomoco will stand in perpetuity, ensuring that we continue to learn from our past, celebrate the present, and aspire to a better future, one that celebrates the heritage of our Commonwealth and all its people.

Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.

A contemporary artist like Grayson Perry is brilliant partly because of his expert knowledge of art history, not despite it.

My grandfather was an American Communist, and he married my grandmother, who was a Russian Communist. During the 1950s, the McCarthy era, my family was viciously persecuted.

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.

I never experienced much outright anti-Semitism. While we learned about the Holocaust - endlessly, it felt like - no spray-painted swastika ever appeared on my childhood landscape. Jewish persecution was an ever-looming reality, but always an abstract one.

We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences.

An attempt by the Mongols to introduce paper money in Persia in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries flopped because no one would accept it. The public had no confidence in the paper money despite the awesomely coercive decrees that always marked Mongol rule.

We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.

Racism plagued America throughout the '60s, into the '70s, through the '80s; it continued in the '90s and in the first decade of the new millennium; and it persists today.

I do believe in ghosts, or at least in some kind of persistent spiritual echoes of the past in certain places.

The British especially have no excuse for forgetting that empire is a most complex and persistent beast. And it has claws.

Since then...I have continued to practice the only sport that suits me. Almost everything attracts me, from archaeology to Islam to Asia and drawings from all eras... The books have never stopped accumulating, but I don't think of them as a collection. For me, they're simply a reservoir of indispensable knowledge that a computer could never replace.

Memory dictates and history writes

Memory is constantly on our lips because it no longer exists.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

I had to bear witness in order to protect the future, bear witness in order to overcome the amnesia of my contemporaries.

The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated ... The importance of this invention is more readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyod the two greatest men of antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius.

Una humanidad, global o parcial, q no tuviera ninguna conciencia de su pasado sería tan anormal como un individuo amnésico (…) en la medida en q el pasado humano es mal conocido, malinterpretado, los hombres y los grupos de hombres, tiene una visión incorrecta de su presente, ?y de su futuro