History

Quote link. Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never life need influence Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience truth hard Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Erich Fromm.: "The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never love run Other quotes by William Shakespeare.: "For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live world men man Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle.: "No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books people book Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle.: "Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books"
Quote link. Other quotes about: silence evil Other quotes by Haile Selassie.: "Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted the indifference of those who should have known better the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph."
Quote link. Other quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy.: "Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power world man mankind Other quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy.: "We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god friend man friends Other quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy.: "Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. (To Canadian Parliament)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: live Other quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy.: "We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world freedom Other quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy.: "In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility-I welcome it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: integrity men success courage future answer service Other quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy.: "When at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each one of us-recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state-our success or failure, in whatever office we may hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions-were we truly men of courage ... were we truly men of judgment ... were we truly men of integrity ... were we truly men of dedication"
Quote link. Other quotes about: men important teach Other quotes by Aldous Huxley.: "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach."
Quote link. Other quotes about: war soul Other quotes by George McGovern.: "The Establishment center ... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster -- a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing change fact Other quotes by Aldous Huxley.: "The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never living look Other quotes by John W. Gardner.: "History never looks like history when you are living through it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live today Other quotes by Henry Ford.: "History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today."
Quote link. Other quotes by Peter Drucker.: "In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first time young Other quotes by Margaret Mead.: "For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing Other quotes by Voltaire.: "Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god world Other quotes by Albert Camus.: "History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human Other quotes by Mitch Ratliffe.: "A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."
Quote link. Other quotes about: music change Other quotes by Tom Stoppard.: "If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation."
Quote link. Other quotes by Richard Milhous Nixon.: "Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth talk world people man peace heaven Other quotes by Richard Milhous Nixon.: "Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth. For one priceless moment, in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one. One in their pride in what you have done. One in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america war Other quotes by Richard Milhous Nixon.: "No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world sin Other quotes by Richard Milhous Nixon.: "This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation. (Saluting crew of the Apollo 11)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: people teach Other quotes by Adolf Hitler.: "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so."
Quote link. Other quotes by Timothy Leary.: "We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go."
Quote link. Other quotes about: small human day words Other quotes by Bertrand Russell.: "I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race."
Quote link. Other quotes about: technology find live dreams value past future change Other quotes by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr..: "Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives."
Quote link. Other quotes by Stephen Covey.: "Live out of your imagination, not your history."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power world Other quotes by Robert Frost.: "I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power."
Quote link. Other quotes about: dreams past future Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.: "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man rule look Other quotes by Mahatma Gandhi.: "Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.: "Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world Other quotes by Walt Whitman.: "Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books human book words Other quotes by Hermann Hesse.: "Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live change Other quotes by R. D. Laing.: "We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day Other quotes by Gene Fowler.: "News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human Other quotes by Matrix, The.: "Morpheus Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony."
Quote link. Other quotes by Charles Dudley Warner.: "Regrets are idle yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time never Other quotes by M. I. Abramowitz.: "Just because the solutions of problems are not visible at any particular time does not mean that those problems will never be alleviated -- or confined to tolerable dimensions. History has a way of changing the very terms in which problems operate and of leaving them, in the end, unsolved, to be sure, yet strangely deflated of their original meaning and importance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books talk live book Other quotes by Jean Anouilh.: "Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it."
Quote link. Other quotes by Corazn Cojuangco Aquino.: "It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human god Other quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden.: "May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us"
Quote link. Other quotes about: science mental power reason men man good devil influence Other quotes by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin.: "The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction, or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action. If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle."
Quote link. Other quotes about: christ work believe god world need Other quotes by Edward Bedore.: "As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men man mankind Other quotes by Mark Beltaire.: "Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep."
Quote link. Other quotes about: war Other quotes by Hans Albrecht Bethe.: "If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia."
Quote link. Other quotes about: evil person service Other quotes by Lord Billingsley.: "The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wisdom Other quotes by Jean Bodin.: "The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte.: "What is history but a fable agreed upon."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe something men Other quotes by Barbara Bloom.: "When the Japanese mend broken objects they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold, because they believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful."
Quote link. Other quotes about: patience men government women Other quotes by William H. Borah.: "The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power never government Other quotes by Nadia Boulanger.: "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope experience power death believe dreams love fact Other quotes by Robert.: "I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man woman country Other quotes by Willa Sibert Cather.: "The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe first time people worse past country Other quotes by James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr..: "For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing Other quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.: "People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make."
Quote link. Other quotes by Georges Clemenceau.: "America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find people love Other quotes by Robertson Davies.: "The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time Other quotes by George William Curtis.: "It is not observed in history that families improve with time."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right change rule Other quotes by Eugene V. Debs.: "When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing good Other quotes by Will Durant.: "One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think people Other quotes by E. L. Doctorow.: "History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human Other quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich.: "Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men women run Other quotes by Elizabeth II.: "The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women."
Quote link. Other quotes by Clifton Paul Fadiman.: "We are all citizens of history."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance time people Other quotes by Gustave Flaubert.: "Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance time Other quotes by Gustave Flaubert.: "Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god Other quotes by Francisco El Caudillo Franco.: "I am responsible only to God and history."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man rule look Other quotes by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.: "Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people man Other quotes by Jean Genet.: "Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world Other quotes by John B. Gough.: "It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth world today Other quotes by John B. Gough.: "What is a minority The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost bad run ideas Other quotes by A. Whitney Griswold.: "Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas."
Quote link. Other quotes by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts.: "I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye."
Quote link. Other quotes about: past future Other quotes by Robert Anson Heinlein.: "A generation which ignores history has no past and no future."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by Terry Hands.: "We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: country Other quotes by Peter Handke.: "I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist"
Quote link. Other quotes about: first men need belief Other quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.: "The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience never government teach Other quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.: "What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it."
Quote link. Other quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.: "We learn from history that we do not learn from history."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science never Other quotes by Robert Anson Heinlein.: "Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world time father need past teach Other quotes by Russell Hoban.: "If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world people men life women Other quotes by Philip Howard.: "Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human man purpose nature mankind perfect Other quotes by Immanuel Kant.: "The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human Other quotes by Sir Arthur Keith.: "The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts."
Quote link. Other quotes by John Maynard Keynes.: "Ideas shape the course of history."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world never Other quotes by George Frost Kennan.: "Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith-a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by George Frost Kennan.: "The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning."
Quote link. Other quotes by Nikita Khrushchev.: "Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you."
Quote link. Other quotes by Nikita Khrushchev.: "Revolutions are the locomotives of history."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man person Other quotes by Arthur Koestler.: "When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mental men man look Other quotes by Arthur Koestler.: "If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing life person discover run rich Other quotes by Charles Krauthammer.: "If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find time people need education society look Other quotes by Doris Lessing.: "You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accomodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others, will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself-educating your own judgement. Those that stay must remember, always and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this society."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books think time people book Other quotes by Bill Maher.: "During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressing problems. If you think you have it tough, read history books."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by Frederic William Maitland.: "The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life rest Other quotes by Christa McAuliffe.: "I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost world war answer society Other quotes by George Stanley McGovern.: "To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world people Other quotes by Franois Maurice Mitterrand.: "France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope day pain today past look Other quotes by Anna Mary Robertson Moses.: "A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art time life change Other quotes by Oswald Mosley.: "There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old something men love Other quotes by Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.: "For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so ... for Jack history was full of heroes."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe men beauty change Other quotes by Camille Paglia.: "I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power human world man life mankind Other quotes by Sir Karl Popper.: "There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day first time Other quotes by Peter Quennell.: "However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time."
Quote link. Other quotes by J Danforth Quayle.: "People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people man Other quotes by James Barrett Scotty Reston.: "This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art need education Other quotes by Felix G. Rohatyn.: "What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people war Other quotes by Carl Rowen.: "The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history."
Quote link. Other quotes about: duty believe man Other quotes by Steven Runciman.: "I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live life living Other quotes by John Ruskin.: "We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears"
Quote link. Other quotes about: right something men education Other quotes by J. D. Salinger.: "Many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them--if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing Other quotes by John J. Sirica.: "An attempt is already underway to revise history-to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work world good worse past education Other quotes by Thomas Sowell.: "Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work world good past Other quotes by Thomas Sowell.: "Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by John Still.: "The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hours america truth live world never men honest rich country look Other quotes by John Swinton.: "There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
Quote link. Other quotes about: philosophy america Other quotes by Margaret Hilda Thatcher.: "Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy."
Quote link. Other quotes by Marshal Tito.: "Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary."
Quote link. Other quotes about: worse future change Other quotes by Alvin Toffler.: "If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never past future Other quotes by George Macaulay Trevelyan.: "History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science books book Other quotes by Barbara Tuchman.: "Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world never men hate Other quotes by Unknown.: "There was never in the history of the world a great politician who was not hated by large numbers of inferior men."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old man country Other quotes by George Walden.: "A country losing touch with its own history is like an old man losing his glasses, a distressing sight, at once vulnerable, unsure, and easily disoriented."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day time never men good discover Other quotes by Harold Walker.: "When you read history it is quite astonishing to discover that there never was a day when men thought times were really good. Every generation in history has been haunted by the feeling of crisis."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing Other quotes by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire.: "Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes."
Quote link. Other quotes about: education Other quotes by H. G. Wells.: "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe Other quotes by Elie Wiesel.: "I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost bad wisdom run education ideas Other quotes by Alfred Whitney.: "Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power never government Other quotes by Woodrow Wilson.: "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it."
Quote link. Other quotes by Ted Williams.: "The inside half of the plate. That's where history's made."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans america little Other quotes by Louis Booker Wright.: "We're trying to show that we're not a little bit of England in America, but a place for Americans to gain a better perspective on their own history."
Quote link. Other quotes about: woman Other quotes by Virginia.: "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day world war Other quotes by Stephen Ambrose.: "During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong old time man young Other quotes by Lois McMaster Bujold.: "How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old"
Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by Philip Elmer-DeWitt.: "Some people make headlines while others make history."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world future Other quotes by Georg W. Hegel.: "America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself."
Quote link. Other quotes by Dan Quayle.: "People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live Other quotes by Dan Quayle.: "The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something country look Other quotes by Donald H. Rumsfeld.: "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - - the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right human need country Other quotes by Charles Sumner.: "From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance art first never perfect Other quotes by Lytton Strachey.: "The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find think man Other quotes by C. P. Snow.: "When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion."
Quote link. Other quotes by J. W. Schopf.: "For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum."
Quote link. Other quotes about: philosophy america Other quotes by Margaret Thatcher.: "Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: philosophy america never Other quotes by Margaret Thatcher.: "Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live world life good sin single Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.: "Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for good."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never today Other quotes by Dwight D Eisenhower.: "Things have never been more like the way they are today in history."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man wise future run lies Other quotes by Dwight D Eisenhower.: "Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lies Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience man Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right never man Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history."
Quote link. Other quotes about: woman Other quotes by Virginia Woolf.: "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope nothing life good love alone Other quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr.: "Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost never book living Other quotes by Carl Sandburg.: "History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human Other quotes by William James.: "Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism."
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Quote link. Other quotes about: first time democracy Other quotes by Robert Orben.: "Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books christ live people book courage love future Other quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr..: "If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind Other quotes by Kahlil Gibran.: "History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history."
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Quote link. Other quotes about: think people discover answer rule Other quotes by George Orwell.: "It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons. In particular, the connection between the discovery of gunpowder and the overthrow of feudalism by the bourgeoisie has been pointed out over and over again. And though I have no doubt exceptions can be brought forward, I think the following rule would be found to be generally true that ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance. Thus, for example, tanks, battleships and bombing planes are inherently tyrannical weapons, while rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon --so long as there is no answer to it-- gives claws to the weak."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk god time run country Other quotes by Harry S Truman.: "Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar. . . . .He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides."
Quote link. Other quotes by Harry S Truman.: "The only new thing is history we don't know."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old world Other quotes by Harry S Truman.: "It was the same with those old birds in Greece and Rome as it is now. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find man life Other quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.: "If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first dead Other quotes by Walter Bagehot.: "The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."
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Quote link. Other quotes about: lost peace Other quotes by Henry Kissinger.: "Nixon had three goals to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history to be remembered as a peacemaker and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human men man freedom light rain born Other quotes by Frederick Douglas.: "The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. . . .If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing change Other quotes by Franklin P. Jones.: "Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life ideas Other quotes by Norman Cousins.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never Other quotes by Edward R. Murrow.: "Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by American Indian Proverb.: "A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux"
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