951 private quotes tagged history

“The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.” — Golda Meir

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“Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.” — Louis D. Brandeis

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“No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.” — Dean Acheson

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“We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.” — Edward R. Murrow

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“What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.” — Milton Friedman

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“Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.” — John Quincy Adams

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“But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.” — Damien Hirst

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“I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.” — Salma Hayek

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“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.” — Frank Herbert

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“Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.” — Ralph Abernathy

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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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“As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.” — John Hodgman

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“There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.” — Andy Grove

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“History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.” — Joseph Conrad

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“The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.” — Mao Zedong

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“Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.” — John Polkinghorne

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“I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.” — Elton John

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“The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.” — David Cameron

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“Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.” — Luis Gutierrez

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“Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?” — Emile M. Cioran

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“You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.” — Jawaharlal Nehru

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“All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.” — Honore de Balzac

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“The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.” — Norman Cousins

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