- 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
- We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.
- Thabo Mbeki on History
- We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on History
- We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
- Daisaku Ikeda on History
- We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton on History
- We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.
- Anne Lamott on History
- We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow on History
- We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.
- James Lee Burke on History
- We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
- Henry Ford on History
- We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.
- Novak Djokovic on History
- We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset on History
- We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
- Abdul Kalam on History
- We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.
- Franklin P. Adams on History
- We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
- Mangosuthu Buthelezi on History
- We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
- John F. Kennedy on History
- We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
- Charles Bukowski on History
- We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
- Jim DeMint on History
- We learned the value of research in World War II.
- 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.
- R. D. Laing on History
- We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
- John Guare on History
- We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
- Doug Coupland on History
- We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.
- Jonathan Safran Foer on History
- We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
- Juan Antonio Samaranch on History
- We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
- Dick Gregory on History
- We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.
- We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
- John F. Kennedy on History
- We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.
- Condoleezza Rice on History
- We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.
- Barack Obama on History
- We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
- Tony Blair on History
- Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
- Victor Hugo on History
- Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger on History
- Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
- Wole Soyinka on History
- Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
- Arthur Erickson on History
- What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.
- Jonathan Sacks on History
- What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures.
- Scott Walker on History
- What is history but a fable agreed upon?
- Napoleon Bonaparte on History
- What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
- Victor Hugo on History
- What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
- Jackie Kennedy on History
- What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
- Arthur Erickson on History
- What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.
- Henry Louis Gates on History
- What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
- Thomas Mann on History
- What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
- Barney Frank on History
- What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.
- Emir Kusturica on History
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