- If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
- John F. Kennedy on History
- If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.
- David Horowitz on History
- If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on History
- If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.
- Thom Yorke on History
- If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
- Desmond Tutu on History
- If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.
- Temple Grandin on History
- If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.
- If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.
- Madeleine Albright on History
- If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
- A. N. Wilson on History
- If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
- C. S. Lewis on History
- If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
- Salman Rushdie on History
- If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
- Bo Bennett on History
- If you think you have it tough, read history books.
- Bill Maher on History
- If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
- Thomas Merton on History
- Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
- Simone Weil on History
- Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.
- Novak Djokovic on History
- Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.
- Jerry Saltz on History
- In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?
- Manuel Puig on History
- In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
- Edward De Bono on History
- In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on History
- 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.
- Leo Tolstoy on History
- In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.
- Ville Valo on History
- In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
- Newt Gingrich on History
- In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it.
- Hans-Georg Gadamer on History
- In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
- Stefan Zweig on History
- In history people dressed much better than we do today.
- Vivienne Westwood on History
- In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
- John McCarthy on History
- In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
- Desmond Tutu on History
- In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
- Elie Wiesel on History
- In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
- Alan Watts on History
- In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.
- Hassan Nasrallah on History
- In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
- Jesse Jackson on History
- In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
- Wallace Shawn on History
- In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
- Hugo Black on History
- In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
- Theodore Bikel on History
- In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
- P. J. O'Rourke on History
- In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.
- Tony Blair on History
- In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.
- Aung San Suu Kyi on History
- In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.
- Bhumibol Adulyadej on History
- In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on History
- In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.
- T. Boone Pickens on History
- In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.
- James Hillman on History
- In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
- Charles Darwin on History
- In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
- John F. Kennedy on History
- In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
- Richard M. Nixon on History
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
- David Attenborough on History
- In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.
- Mitt Romney on History
- In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
- Charles De Gaulle on History
- In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
- Salman Rushdie on History
- Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
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