951 private quotes tagged 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

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“The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.” — Molly Ivins

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“All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.” — Alice Walker

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“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.” — William James

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“The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.” — Arthur C. Clarke

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“Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.” — Henry A. Kissinger

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“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.” — C. Wright Mills

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“The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.” — Margaret Fuller

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“Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

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“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.” — Barbara Tuchman

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“Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.” — Benito Mussolini

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“I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.” — Tony Bennett

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“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.” — Virginia Woolf

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“While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.” — Mattie Stepanek

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“I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.” — Brian Clough

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“The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.” — Dan Quayle

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“Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan.” — Sachin Tendulkar

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“All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.” — Moliere

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“Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.” — Jacques Yves Cousteau

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“I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.” — Keith O'Brien

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“Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.” — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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“The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.” — Vladimir Lenin

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“Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.” — Janeane Garofalo

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“The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.” — Giacomo Casanova

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