History Quotes

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.

It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.

Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.

But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.

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.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.

Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

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

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

Barack Obama is the worst President in history.

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.