951 private quotes tagged history

“No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.” — Hannah Arendt

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“Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.” — Wole Soyinka

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“I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.” — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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“The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.” — James McGreevey

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“I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.” — John Thune

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“Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.” — Augustine Birrell

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“I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.” — Eddie Izzard

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“To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.” — Arthur Smith

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“It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.” — Scarlett Johansson

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“Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.” — Joe Baca

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“The future has a way of arriving unannounced.” — George Will

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“After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.” — David Cameron

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“In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.” — Tony Blair

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“You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.” — Leopold Von Ranke

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“The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.” — Jessamyn West

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“Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.” — Francois Hollande

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“I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.” — Boris Becker

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“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.” — Joan Rivers

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“Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.” — Haile Selassie

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“All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” — Charles A. Beard

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“Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.” — Thomas Sowell

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“So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.” — Milton Friedman

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