951 private quotes tagged history

“Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.” — Norman Borlaug

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“There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.” — Michelle Obama

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“Black history is American history.” — Morgan Freeman

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“Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!” — Nikita Khrushchev

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“After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.” — Condoleezza Rice

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“History is Philosophy teaching by example.” — Thucydides

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“History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.” — Ken Burns

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“The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.” — Emma Goldman

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“Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.” — Elie Wiesel

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“So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.” — Sidney Poitier

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“Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.” — Tom Waits

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“Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.” — Joan Rivers

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“History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.” — Theodor Adorno

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“It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.” — Richard P. Feynman

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“No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.” — Alfred North Whitehead

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“This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.” — Gertrude Stein

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“So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.” — Henry Louis Gates

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“It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.” — V. S. Naipaul

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“Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.” — Marty Meehan

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“All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.” — John Baldacci

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“And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.” — Carter G. Woodson

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“My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.” — William Jennings Bryan

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“Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“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

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