Quotes About People

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.

Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.

The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation.

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.

If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.

If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!

There are some people in occult history who warned against using the Ouija Board, who said: "This is a dangerous door to the unconscious. Don't approach this thing."

History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.

Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.

My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.