History Quotes

The evil of slavery and colonialism was that these oppressions kept their victims out of history, disconnected them from the evolutionary struggle.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

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.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.

The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church.

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.