Famous Quotes
- This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.
- John Perkins on History
- This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?
- Azar Nafisi on History
- This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.
- Hillary Clinton on History
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
- Neil Armstrong on History
- This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.
- Marco Rubio on History
- This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
- Gertrude Stein on History
- This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.
- Haile Gebrselassie on History
- This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on History
- Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.
- Arthur Henderson on History
- Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.
- Gene Tierney on History
- Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana on History
- Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
- Edmund Burke on History
- Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
- Carter G. Woodson on History
- Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
- Dag Hammarskjold on History
- Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
- Albert Camus on History
- Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.
- Ray Manzarek on History
- Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God.
- Sun Myung Moon on History
- Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
- Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
- Salman Rushdie on History
- Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
- Barbara Jordan on History
- Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.
- Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.
- Stockwell Day on History
- Time is my greatest enemy.
- Evita Peron on History
- Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.
- Norodom Sihanouk on History
- To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'
- V. S. Naipaul on History
- To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.
- Joyce Carol Oates on History
- To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
- Daisaku Ikeda on History
- To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
- Albert Camus on History
- To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.
- Michael Beschloss on History
- To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
- Daniel Libeskind on History
- To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
- Hermann Hesse on History
- To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
- Irving R. Kaufman on History
- To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.
- Giuseppe Garibaldi on History
- To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
- Charles Babbage on History
- To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
- Margaret Thatcher on History
- Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
- Pope John Paul II on History
- Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
- Luis Gutierrez on History
- Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.
- Marco Rubio on History
- Value people on their potential, not on their history.
- Bo Bennett on History
- Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.
- William Hague on History
- Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.
- Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
- Mahatma Gandhi on History
- War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.
- Jane Goodall on History
- Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
- Robert Mugabe on History
- Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.
- Emily Blunt on History
- We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.
- Anne Roiphe on History
- We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.
- Francois Hollande on History
- We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
- Timothy Leary on History
- We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
- We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
- Fred Allen on History
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