Quotes About History

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

I would like people to pay attention to the idea of rational empathy, and that as a society, we are walking down a path that's well-trodden throughout history.

Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic.

You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society.

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

I would say, compared with the 19th century, compared with most previous history, this is as good or better a society than any which man has ever made. But that doesn't mean it is such a good one.

In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.

We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.

If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.

That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape our core values in the past few centuries.

I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage.

Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?

I am not a theologian, nor am I a priest or a minister, but I think building walls is fundamentally contrary to what made this country what it is. We're a pluralistic society in its functions.

In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society.

We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.

One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are done, we recognize one thing: that the human race has been badly manhandled, but that it has moved forward.

The complacent the self-indulgent the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

It does not matter how much we donate it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define meaningful? Let society and history judge.

Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

American nation was not founded on political principles. This nation was founded on spiritual principles.

Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a movement that in the course of a little more than two centuries changed the world.