951 private quotes tagged 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

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“But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.” — Tom Hanks

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“The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.” — William J. Clinton

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“Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.” — Jefferson Davis

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“One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.” — Albert Schweitzer

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“Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.” — Arnold J. Toynbee

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“It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.” — Malcolm Forbes

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“One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.” — Will Durant

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“American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.” — James A. Baldwin

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“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.” — James A. Baldwin

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“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

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“Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.” — Dag Hammarskjold

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“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

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“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

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“Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.” — Margaret Mead

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“The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.” — Henry Louis Gates

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“I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.” — Colin Powell

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“Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.” — Ani DiFranco

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“No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.” — Louis L'Amour

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“Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.” — Vladimir Putin

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