951 private quotes tagged history

“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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“Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.” — Salman Rushdie

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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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“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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“In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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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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“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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“If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.” — Josh McDowell

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“France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.” — Johnny Depp

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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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