History Quotes

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

World history is a court of judgment.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.