951 private quotes tagged history

“World War II was the last government program that really worked.” — George Will

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“Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.” — Maynard James Keenan

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

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“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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“It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.” — Benito Mussolini

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“Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.” — Anita Baker

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“The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.” — Nikita Khrushchev

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“Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.” — Dante Alighieri

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“I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.” — John Cleese

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“The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.” — Colin Powell

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“The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.” — Jimmy Carter

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“September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.” — Tom Ford

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“History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.” — Thomas Huxley

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“There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.” — Jeffrey Kluger

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“Ideas shape the course of history.” — John Maynard Keynes

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“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.” — Edward Gibbon

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“Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.” — Arnold J. Toynbee

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“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.” — George Santayana

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“History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.” — Johan Huizinga

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“History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.” — Lord Acton

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“History takes time. History makes memory.” — Gertrude Stein

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