Famous Quotes

"Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily."

Maynard James Keenan on History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

• "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

  Mahatma Gandhi on History

• "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by Maynard James Keenan

• "The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?"

• "Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer."

• "If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common."

• "If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets."

• "The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich."