Quotes About History

The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it.

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

I think the central theme about black society is that it has got elements of a defeated society

Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste

Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

The black man in America is the same as the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. We are strangers in a land that is not ours. We are rejected by this type of modern Pharaoh or pharohnic society.

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

I believe that it is appropriate for young people in society to revisit Malcolm's journey and his role in history.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.

People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.

In the vast majority of cases the secret society symbolism hearkens from two places - Ireland and Egypt.

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.

If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.